Linked by Anthony Hicks on Tue 8th Apr 2003 16:17 UTC
This (quite long) article has been written by me for two primary reasons: One, to hopefully save someone else the time and hassle associated with trying out various Linux distributions, and two, to promote some discussion and feedback regarding what a modern Linux distribution should be, and of course to contrast this with what is currently available. I am exploring the offerings of MS Windows, BeOS and MacOSX, and then taking on a number of well-known Linux distributions.
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What is the thing about the Mac's one button mous?. You can get everything done with one button on the Mac OS. It was designed that way. Two, three, whatever buttons is purely optional. Any smart buyer will research to see if their mouse work with a new OS before plunging in.
Apple will not go x86. Forget it. Apple's future is sound. They are a healthy, vibrant company. Not like Gateway which is bleeding to death. Apple will almost certainly go with the PowerPC 970, IBM's new 64 bit chip. It is sampling now and will go into production in August.
Mac OS X can run umodified right now on the PowerPC 970 though that would defeat the purpose of a 64 bit chip. Mac OS X will have to have to havesome tweaks but all apps will run unmodified on the new chip since it will handle 32 bit PPC instructions as well. Your hardware wont be obsolete in 6 months.
And that Adobe FUD? c'mon. Even Adobe later expressed regret at posting errant information. They mistenterpreted a study that was showing Photoshop was faster on Mac OS X. They didn' read the fine print.
Obviously this reviewer is biased toward Linux. If you think you have repurchase apps for Mac OS X, wait to see how many won't run on Linux. period.