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| DATE | 2006-05-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The Linux Journal
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:58:08AM -0700, Matt Thrailkill wrote:
> I think you could argue Linux has a wider range of hw support than OSX
> does. I plug usb devices in like hard drives, ipods, telephones, and
> bluetooth trancievers and Linux just starts using them too.
>
> Having that vendor support is nice though... hard to argue against that.
> If you _need_ Photoshop or MS Office... at least the vendor makes it for
> your platform. I think one day Linux will have that support too, it
> just need enough users.
>
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 11:50 -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
> > On 5/23/06, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:22:36PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
> > > > That said, I'm not claiming that the latest Linux desktops are better
> > > > than OS X. On the contrary, my wife just got a fancy new MacBook Pro
> > > > and it's great. It has a lot of fancy features which Linux can't come
> > > > close to matching.
> > >
> > > I'm curious... like what?
> >
> > The Dashboard widgets in Tiger are pretty spiffy, for one thing. And
> > for another, the Mac is incredibly good at grokking random bits of
> > hardware you throw at it (via USB and Firewire mainly).
> >
> --
> Matt Thrailkill
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