![]() ![]() (That’s between 30,000 and 40,000 Linux computers, not servers, per month.) ” ![]() “Wade said HP already sells 100,000 Linux desktops per quarter. See, some people cannot live with the fact that Linux may be growing quickly and gaining hardware support.Īt least, HP’s Wade gives some numbers to back up his estimates, such as: This is just damage control, after the fact, nothing more, nothing less. It’s out of the box pretty well locked down, can be firewalled with a mouseclick, and Apple generally issues updates and patches to preemt problems *before* they are widely exploited.)Īnd how many languages does Annette Jump from Gartner speak in order to know what is being used and sold overseas? How often has she visited Brazil or Spain recently? And IRIX only runs on SGI Hardware, just as Solaris runs only on Sun Hardware. However, if you really really want root, you can turn on the root account.)Ħ) It only runs natively on Apple Hardware. As the sysadmin you own everything except the System folder, where you really shouldn’t be mucking about anyway. (Then go to the command line and change it, you berk!)ĥ) There’s no root. (Total BS.)Ĥa) The command line is by default the interface I don’t like. (See #2)Ĥ) You can’t get to the command line. (No, there’s a way to port them.)ģ) You have to use the Aqua windowing environment. I educated him otherwise.)Ģ) You can’t use Linux programs. (A friend of mine doesn’t want my husband’s next work computer to be a mac because there’s no Excel for the Mac. The zealots who think that all of OS X should be Open Source aside, we OS X lovers have to battle a regular stream of misconceptions:ġ) You can’t run Microsoft Office on it. ![]()
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