On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:25:51 -0400, Jim wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:45:22 -0600, uncle arnie
wrote:

No, Linux is the future.

For some servers, perhaps. Not on the desktop. OS X is much better
desktop than Linux will ever be.


Apparently we will never know if that's really so. Now that Apple
has become a "me too" company by moving entirely to Intel processors,
it will have to face the same multitude of hardware types that
Microsoft has had to face in its attempts to keep Windows functional.

And Apple has always tightly controlled the hardware on which its
software was run, right up until this year. Signs are that Apple is
going to attempt to maintain that tight hardware control, and that's a
recipe for failure. OS X is already "in the wild" and is being run on
generic beige Intel boxes, in spite of Apple's efforts to control it.

OS X has just been exposed to a much larger hardware world, and it
looks right now that, thanks to Apple, it is going to sink instead of
swim. In that case, OS X will never even get a chance to be a
contender.

Llllloyd