Entries tagged with “mac os x” from Manufactured Environments
Open Source Christmas
We saw the Christmas Pageant of Peace at the National Christmas Tree in Washington DC. DC is festive this time of year. We did our Christmas shopping there and had a good time of it. We hope your Holidays...
Tags: amarok · linux · mac os x · national christmas tree · opensuse · pageant of peace · vista · washington dc
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 26, 2006 10:36 PM · Permalink
The biggest mistake you can make if you’re new to Linux
I'll be the first to admit that Linux appeals to the technically inclined. It also appeals to people who believe in the freedom of ideas. People are cruising along on their Mac OS X laptop or their Windows box, and...
Tags: linux · linux documentation project · mac os x · poweruser · suse · suse linux · switch · ubuntu · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on September 8, 2006 9:05 PM · Permalink
OpenDarwin shuts down: Mac OS X still proprietary
When Apple first released Mac OS X in 2000, they had the goal of seeding the operating system in open source style. The Darwin project released, and continues to release, the foundations for Mac OS X under an open source...
Tags: apple · darwin · linux · mac os x · monopoly · open source · opendarwin · winmac
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 25, 2006 9:25 PM · Permalink
Geeks Gone Bad: Switching from Mac OS X to Linux
You'll first note my lengthy and highly entertaining post from December 2005 entitled Celebrity Deathmatch: Windows XP vs SUSE Linux. In that article, I talked about my switch from Mac OS X and Windows XP over to SUSE Linux...
Tags: linux · mac os x · opensuse · suse · suse linux · ubuntu · windows xp
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 19, 2006 9:26 PM · Permalink
Boot Camp beta is released
Rumors had been swirling for a few months that Apple was going to release their dual-boot solution for running Mac OS X and Windows XP on the new Intel-based Macs. Well, the blogosphere is all a twitter this morning....
Tags: apple · beta · boot camp · dual-boot · intelmac · mac os x · microsoft · winxp
Posted by Daniel Stout on April 5, 2006 9:37 AM · Permalink
Apple celebrates 30 years
On April 1st, 1976, began a computer company like no other. It was the dawn of Apple. I was in the fourth grade on December 25, 1981, when my family got its first computer, an Apple II+. That was...
Tags: 30th · a-ux · anniversary · apple · apple computer · frog design · ii+ · mac os x · steve jobs
Posted by Daniel Stout on April 1, 2006 7:27 AM · Permalink
Celebrity Deathmatch: Windows XP vs SUSE Linux
Long before there was Windows XP. Long before there was Windows 95. There was an operating system that rose up out of the Finnish primordial ooze. A young man named Linus Torvalds had the pluck to want to write his...
Tags: cleartype · debian · desktop linux · fedora · gcc · gnome · gnu · linus torvalds · linux · mac os x · microsoft · novell · opensuse · red hat · suse · suse linux · windows · winxp
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 25, 2005 5:39 PM · Permalink
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