[NTLUG:Discuss] Mac v. Linux

[Steve Baker]

Andrew Brown wrote:
> Well the hoopla is a hoopin' over the Mac to Intel move. Been reading some 
> articles today about how this may impact Linux. Some of the "pundents" seem 
> to see this as more a challenge to Linux than to MS as Mac OS is the "best of 
> breed" Unix system. 

I find it hard to see how it'll have any impact whatever.

The key thing to understand is that Mac-on-Intel does *not* mean Mac-on-PC.

Apple are a hardware company - their new machines almost certainly won't be
PC-compatible, and there is no indication that they'd ever sell their OS for
PC's.

So my prediction is that Mac's will still be Mac's - and the fact that they
have a different CPU inside will be pretty much invisible to everyone.

About the most impact it'll probably have is to gradually reduce the numbers
of people maintaining Linux PPC distro's as the PPC Mac's start to become
obsolete.

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