Comments on: Apple Leopard: ROAR! or meow?

By: Barrie Ward aka The Canadian Geezer

Barrie Ward aka The Canadian Geezer — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:18:36 +0000

An OS can be best described for the knowledgeable in an old maxim “Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar” … and the same goes for the operating systems on most of the worlds computers …

The truth be told (and it is the truth) … most computer users know little beyond how to turn their machines on & off, use their email and surf the web … I sort of like the names the people at Apple and Microsoft come up with but I have to bow and doff my fedora to ‘Ubuntu’ — Just sounds so exotic/alien … Chuckle

By: jose

jose — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:11:50 +0000

For the life of me I’ll never understand why Mac users are “cult” like yet it’s Windows users who have put up with illegal activities and shoddy software and who show just plain head in the sand worship.

Is it because the Mac people are more vocal?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:35:37 +0000

It’s still proprietary software, no matter how you slice it. Linux and/or BSD variants will be the way of the future, especially with the modern trends in proprietary operating systems and supporting products.

Interesting list of *minimum* OS requirements, edited to fit your screen:

Vista = 800 MHz, 512MB (1/2 GIG) RAM, 15GB HD available, and a DirectX 9 video card

Leopard = 866 MHz, 512MB RAM, 9GB HD available, Apple-supplied video card, FireWire

Ubuntu Linux = 300 MHz, 64MB RAM, 2GB HD (recommended 500 MHz, 192MB RAM, 8GB HD)

It seems pretty clear who is writing smaller code, at the very least. XP’s minimum requirements were almost identical to Ubuntu’s when it was released. Vista makes it clear that a clean OS from Microsoft is no more, and the same kind of bloat can be seen in Apple’s Mac OS X as it gains revisions as well.

Honestly, Linux has a long way to go before it can hope to scrap Windows and OS X from the common user’s desktop, but given the progress I’ve seen just in the last two years on the Linux front, it’s not a question of if it will kill proprietary operating systems, it’s a question of when.