Star Editors of Major Mac Website Switch to Linux
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Jul 2006 20:46 UTC, submitted by Bryan
Apple The editors of ResExcellence.com, a popular Macintosh website and longtime Mac enthusiasts, have switched to Linux. "I've been making my living as Mac-specific developer for several years now... I was a true Mac die-hard," stated Bryan, who also runs a Mac software company, on his blog, "but the Macintosh community, with its bad attitudes and diva-esque nature, rained on my parade. Sure there were other reasons why I switched. But that was the tipping point."
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RE: Hahaha
by butters on Wed 26th Jul 2006 01:38 UTC in reply to "Hahaha"
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I got the sense that the reasoning had little to do with any particularly impressive features on Linux, or Ubuntu in this case. Complaints about the horrible Mac community aside, they seem to have switched because of a perceived decrease in the quality and performance of Mac software.

I hate to do the whole "proprietary is dying" thing, but the OSS stack is faring much better than Apple or Microsoft in attacking the two central challenges of software engineering: 1) that defect rates scale much worse than linear with new features, and 2) that (application) software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

With OSS, the new features get out the door sooner, run faster on modest hardware, and once they get past the initial spike in bug reports immediately following release, they tend to have fewer bugs over the course of their lifetime. Look at SLED10: it reached beta quality quicker, got better reviews, and was gold sooner than even Novell expected. Apple is beginning to lengthen their release cycles (although they seem good at sticking to them), and Microsoft hasn't completed a release cycle in so long I wonder if they still know how to fire up the CD presses ;)

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