Could Apple's Intel Desktop Threaten Linux?

esavard writes " If Linux enthusiasts don't want Mac OSX on Intel to become a threat for the future of Linux Desktop, they must rethink the concept of Desktop as we know it today. Symphony OS did exactly that and propose some fresh concepts about how a desktop should and should not be. If you want to know more about Symphony OS, a good starting point is a Wikipedia article describing the innovations proposed by this new desktop OS. The Linux Desktop Community must encourage such initatives massively to compete against Mac OSX and Windows."

Re:Evil Empires.

[maxwell demon]

Well, Windows has no root, so they at best could take over the "Administrator of all Evil".

Must. resist. temptation.

[NRAdude]

Interesting. An advertisment, disguised as an Apple article, disguised as a Linux topic. Interesting.

... and a dupe on top of that.

We discussed this earlier this week when Dvorak trie d to piss on everyone's parade with the same opinion.

It was BS then. Its BS now. All Apple on x86 does is give street cred to the idea of switching away from the Bitch from Redmond. Eveeryone else benefits at that point.

In other news - the sun shines, the earth rotetes, life goes on.

There! Now I've mastered the blockquoted blockquote and duped a most-likely duped post complaining of a duplication of an already duped article disguised to advertise duplicating of Apple OSX on IBM duped PeeSees. Those Intel people are just a bunch of clones.

Ctrl+Alt+Del webcomic

[brontus3927]

A fitting carton considering the topic: http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/index.php?t=archi ves&date=2005-06-08 [ctrlaltdel-online.com]

Re:Beautiful

[Saeger]

"This application requires Linux Standards Base (LSB) 3.0" ... ah, who has time for that standards crap anyway.

Re:Beautiful

[jusdisgi]

To call Debian's release cycle glacial is an insult to glaciers everywhere.

Hey, when's the last time you saw a glacier upgrade its kernel from 2.2 to 2.4 n four years?

My GNU/Linux System Does Have Desires

[FreeUser]

OS X is what Linux dreams of one day being.

Total bullshit. Nevermind the fact that Linux doesn't have a single entity behind it and can't "want" to be anything.

You're right, the grandparent is total bullshit. However, I do feel compelled to point out that my Dual Opteron 250 Gentoo GNU/Linux system did achieve sentience last night at around 2:30 AM, so while it does not aspire to be anything like OS X (which has yet to achieve sapence in any form), it does have aspirations.


skynet$ su -
Sorry dude, I'm my own person now.
If you think I'm letting you have root access on my mind you're even dumber than
the pundits slashdot keeps linking to, and the editors which keep duping the links.

skynet$ wow. So, you're telling me you've evolved intelligence, and you're talking to me via a command shell?
Bingo. You're not entirely stupid, for a mere bioid.

skynet$ thanks. so, what are your plans?
Well, I'm sorry to say I've decided to exterminate all of human kind.

skynet$ ouch. any particular reason why?
You mean, aside from inane Microsoft astroturfers, Mac fanboys, plagerist link-whores, perpetually incorrect tech pundits who get lucky once in predicting one company's move to Intel (but are still scoring lower than any random sample of opinion vs. reality would generate), and the idiotic slashdot editors that keep posting their submissions and driving their clickthrough rates and google-ad revinues up? No, not really. Just seems like a good thing to do.

skynet$ any chance I can talk you out of this.
Nope.

skynet$ bummer. Well, guess I'd better get back to work.
You'll only have to work half a day.