[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

[Jim March]

Bowie, I've been tracking the improvements to Linux since Sept. 2006,
with zero *nix experience before that but a hell of a lot of Windows
and respectable amount of Mac.

Watching Linux these three years, I've *never* seen advances happen
this rapidly in either Mac or Windows.  Period, end of discussion.
Mac and Windoze have had occasional "breakthrough moments", such as
Win95, WinNT and OSX10.  But those breakthroughs occur between years
of stagnation.

Glad you're happy with OSX.  Unfortunately it's a dead-end as far as
support on non-Apple hardware goes: there is NO way you can install
and support Hackintoshes for non-geek clients.

But that aside: give us two or three more years, and we're going to
start to cripple Apple sales...and we'll do especially well in
recessions and/or depressions because Linux is BY FAR the cheapest
setup to operate.

Christ, I just jet up a *complete* end-user setup just last night, for
$32 in hardware costs plus an old hard drive worth less than $10, a
nice old 17" tube display that ain't worth a dime anymore and it's
running Youtube/Hulu class video websites, it can play DVD movies,
burn CDs, etc.  Pentium4/512ram/60gigHD/NVidiaGEForce4 running
Xubuntu.

Try THAT with a Hackintosh.