[Tfug] Hackintosh vs. Linux

[Jim March]

> Not talking about marketshare.  Jim proposed that
> nursing/maintaining/admining a "Hackintosh" was an exercise in
> frustration because Apple, Inc is actively fighting against you.  I
> was simply pointing out that that's more-or-less true for all
> proprietary solutions.  Without the support of the owner, you're up
> the creek without a paddle when you adopt proprietary software.
> Proprietary software is ultimately a dead end because it's not a
> matter of if the owner will stop supporting you, but when.
>
> Claude

Right, and that's true in the Windows world too.  Ask Microsoft about
OS support for a Pentium1 with 64megs RAM for example and they'll
laugh at you.  Ask "the Linux community" on the other hand and you'll
be pointed to Puppy Linux, Damn Small Linux and the like.

The only reason people have tolerated hardware obsolescence made
mandatory by Microsoft OS upgrades is that PC hardware is cheap.  But
it's not necessary to tolerate that if you run Linux and have somewhat
basic needs...hell, by running on hardware that the mainstream crowd
now just throws out (Pentium3 for example) you can do as much
computing as you want for free, barring wall-plug power.

Apple's hardware costs being higher, the OS lockouts and forced
upgrades hurt even worse.

Jim