Linux to Over take Apple on Desktop

[Faust]

quote:
it must be mature if their are 5 people at major book giant barnes&noble, reading up on linux instead of the 0 windows readers.

Yah, it shows Linux users can read and Windows users can't.  

[Laukev7]

quote: Alright then lets see you build a beowulf cluster from Macs.

Er, this is actually MUCH easier to do on Macs than on Linux. I even saw read about a story about a grade 6 student (or something) clustering G4 PowerMacs (with instructions, of course). It explained how universities preferred Macs because they were quicker to cluster and get the work done. Unfortunately, I can't find the article.    

Oh well, here's something else:
http://www.apple.com/scitech/research/hiperformance/cluster/

[jasonlane]

quote: It would also be nice if we didn't have to use Quicktime player with it's awful UI and listen to it's constant "please pay for pro version!" whingeing.

Now that's just a matter of personal taste, yes I wish they'd stop the whingeing as well.

 

quote: Alright then lets see you build a beowulf cluster from Macs.  Or put the Mac OS on a PDA...

OS X Beowulf clusters are happening already:

Beowulf

I believe that Panther will improve greatly on this point though.

However I agree that some *nixes have more maturity in this field. Universities and research establishments have been making use of them in this way for a long time after all. I think the problem that alot of people have with OS X is that they see still as a Graphic Designers OS, which it ain't just reserved for this no more..... OS X on a PDA, I'd like to see.

[M51DPS]

quote:Originally posted by suselinux:
One step closer

web page

Disney funded a GPL project to add full PHOTOSHOP support to WINE

Because it's GPL it was snatched up and put into Crossover office, but is still available for regular old wine.

I say one step closer because so many have said that if PHOTOSHOP support switched from Mac to Linux, Apple would die.

frankly, I can't see PHOTOSHOP ever leaving Apple,
they complement each other too well, they always have.

BUT all of this does make Linux all the more desirable for the desktop.

It doesn't matter, disney is evil and never would have given a shit if they didn't need Photoshop for editing.

[suselinux]

quote:Originally posted by M51DPS:


It doesn't matter, disney is evil and never would have given a shit if they didn't need Photoshop for editing.

You were beat up by a guy in a Mickey Mouse suit as a kid, weren't you?

[Faust]

Disney is evil, they treat their employees like shit and use third world slave labour.

[solo]

Faust, great now youve done it. You've killed this topic. And just as I thought it would never end. Christ man what is wrong with you!

         

One day I'm gonna make a smily farm on a post. Dammit! The maximum image count allowed is 8 *including smilies*