operating system
Meet The Mac-Clone Mystery Man from Psystar
How’s this for a deal. At a fraction of the cost of a comparably equipped machine from Apple, a Web-based company dubbed Psystar is offering a computer you can have loaded up with just about any operating system you choose, including Apple’s OS X Leopard.
Ubuntu Hardy Heron: Ready for the masses?
Is Linux ready for the masses? A CW article would like us to believe so, but…
Is (was) Linux targeted towards the “casual computer users” in the first place? Not too sure about that. If you look at how Linux interfaces looked 10 years back, definitely no. I remember I used to hack around the *vms and make the desktop look as bright as other OSs. Things definitely have changed, but the reputation has lingered. Linux still remains an enigma to the masses. It always was like that. Windows for masses. Mac for the passionates. *nix for the programmers.
