Will Linux Finish off the Mac?

[bazooka]

What do you think?
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5406365.html

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To dream a dream

[vitualis]

IMHO, no. People who CHOOSE Macs do so for specific reasons which won't be fulfilled by using Linux.

Regards.

[Faustus]

Your asking if a comlicated and convaluted OS is going to destroy a hardware company that also writes one of the Best OSs and its know for being user friendly?

[BJ_M]

only if FCP , DVDP , Quark and PS and image ready get ported to linux (not)

[indolikaa]

Hmmm...

No. Linux and MAC target different core users, in my opinion. I still visualize the general computer world as:

Apple: Professional multimedia development
Windows: General computer applications
RISC: High-performance workstations
Linux: Server applications and management

Having worked with all four varieties, that's where I think they form their best niches. Microsoft would disagree, of course, but when IBM is selling multi-blade farms with Linux, it has to be a serious player.

And if you've ever used a RISC workstation...

[BJ_M]

really face it -- games drive the computer hardware market and windows rules on games ..

adobe and others are not porting as much to mac --and a lot of multimedia is now only done on pc , but the die hard uses of macs will always be mac heads and for that - great , more power to them , it improves everyone else ..

face it also -- mac had to make a major major change - cpu and os core (to really a linux like unix core) ...

[Faustus]

Yeah but its not like Mac made that change suddenly or overnight. They had been working on it for a long time.

and yeah games do drive alot of the hardware these days, over all the comptuers for sale are more then fast enough to do none game related things. Well until they are laden with spyware that is.

[BJ_M]

i meant in a good way that mac had (and did) make a change .... sgi didn't for example and got smeared in the workstation market. as did others ..

[Faustus]

no doubt, if you really want to see the results of linux and windows on the market look at Novell.

[Garibaldi]

RISC

Sorry for my dumb question, but what is Risc? Is there a live-cd version that I could try? Currently I am:
Running XP Home on my x86
Running Knoppix Linux and Topologilinux beside XP
Running OS X with the emulator Pear PC
I have 3/4 of it covered, now only if I could get Risc.

[BJ_M]

get a power PC chip or a mips chip cpu or several others --

new cpu types are blured as they are some of both types

[bazooka]

RISC

Sorry for my dumb question, but what is Risc? Is there a live-cd version that I could try? Currently I am:
Running XP Home on my x86
Running Knoppix Linux and Topologilinux beside XP
Running OS X with the emulator Pear PC
I have 3/4 of it covered, now only if I could get Risc.

RISC= Reduced Instruction Set Computer.

They are used all the time in videogame consoles.

[Garibaldi]

They are used all the time in videogame consoles.

So they aren't compatible with PCs? Do you have a link?

[ViRaL1]

RISC software runs on RISC chips. Most PCs (and Macs I believe) run on CISC or Complex Instruction Set Computers. SGI and SUN use RISC processors, as well as the Alpha. I believ the NeXT was RISC based also. Intel makes RISC processors for other functions such as logic controllers.

[mrtristan]

I thought macs use RISC chips? Have the G4s and G5s become CISC chips?

[Faustus]

I thought macs use RISC chips?

They do. Mac = RISC, PC = CISC

[BJ_M]

I thought macs use RISC chips?

They do. Mac = RISC, PC = CISC

not exactly anymore -- both platforms are using hybrids now (specially amd i understand)