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Geek Culture / linus torvolds buys a g5 2.0 ghz mac :)

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indi
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Posted: 27th Mar 2005 15:16 Edited at: 27th Mar 2005 15:22
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haha haha haha

hes running his own linux on it but yeah aha aha i find that extremely pleasing to hear.

btw mines faster, not that it counts.

http://www.maccrazy.net/news.php?ID=2062

edit "torvalds" and "he got it for free" <--- soz

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Mnemonix
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Posted: 27th Mar 2005 16:03
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Brilliant!

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David R
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Sorry, but what the hell does this mean? For all you know, he could be buying it to have a ritual burning because of the industrial ******** at Macintosh who stole open-source UNIX systems to make Mac OS (and they really did/are going to steal UNIX systems)


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MicroMan
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Well, that's what they did before with Mac OS. They stole it from the Palo Alto research laboratory, and put it into the first Macs. Then Bill Gates got a look at the Mac, and he too went to Palo Alto to steal the system they had their - just so that he couldn't be accused of copying Steve Jobs. Which he did, in theft at least.

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indi
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Posted: 28th Mar 2005 11:21
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lightning studios didnt read the article or he would be more informed regarding the minor details.

Steve already had NeXT under development which was a licenced distro of BSD to start with and MACOSX was created from that development.

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GothOtaku
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Posted: 9th Apr 2005 15:28
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Quote: "Sorry, but what the hell does this mean? For all you know, he could be buying it to have a ritual burning because of the industrial ******** at Macintosh who stole open-source UNIX systems to make Mac OS (and they really did/are going to steal UNIX systems)"

You can't "steal" open-source OSes, if something's free for everone to use how are you going to steal it? Plus, the BSD license (which is what OS X is based off of) was specifically written so other companies can use the source code. In fact, Microsoft Windows used to (and might still) use the original BSD TCP/IP stack code. Also, BSD isn't UNIX technically and Linux isn't by default since neither follow the official the UNIX standard (POSIX).
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Jimmy
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Could you run darkbasic on that thing?


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Quote: " Could you run darkbasic on that thing?"

Possibly, it might run on one of the Wine forks that implements Direct3D compatability like Cedega. I haven't tried it personally.
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David R
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Quote: "You can't "steal" open-source"

Ok, I didn't quite mean that. What I actually meant is that commercial comapnies are leeching off open-source code, to put into proprietry software

Quote: "Could you run darkbasic on that thing?"

I have WineX [the original before it turned into cedega] it doesn't really work, since DB stores lots of internal files in the TEMP dir [which for security reasons, WineX doesn't seem to like]. The IDE for DBP doesn't work either [since they haven't implemented IDE forms]

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Pricey
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Linux Torvalds... my hero

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bitJericho
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Quote: "Ok, I didn't quite mean that. What I actually meant is that commercial comapnies are leeching off open-source code, to put into proprietry software"


not really, they're supposed to release any opensource code.. but the code they created personally doesnt need to be released.. afaik


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