BTW, reason why it hasn't been ported to the mac is because it would run on over 90% of them.
Posted on 05/11/2006 1:24:06 PM PDT by quidnunc
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BTW, reason why it hasn't been ported to the mac is because it would run on over 90% of them.
I dont care about MS, I'm suing Linux right now.
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LOL! And what can an Apple produce that a PC cant? sheesh. PC's can do everything and play games too.
The only OS I'm actually enamoured with is Linux, and in particular the Ubuntu variant.
Regards, Ivan
Im using Mepis 6 it has some of the Ubuntu inside. :)
Distrowatch.com has this if your interested "Distribution Release: SUSE Linux 10.1"
What I find amazing is that I use Linux on my oldest computer - yet thanks to Linux it runs faster than the others (they are on Windows XP). This 2 1/2 year old laptop is even faster than my mother's 15in Powerbook on OS X.
I am waiting for more of my games to run on Crossover Office or Wine, and then I'll move all my computers over to Ubuntu.
Regards, Ivan
That's really all I need - I've thought about trying to use Macromedia Fireworks through Wine or Crossover Office, but what I've seen so far doesn't suggest it's a viable prospect.
Regards, Ivan
Run OS X legally.
Apple can run OS X who cares.
Destructive OS X malware spies on Apple users
Apple releases Security Update, QuickTime 7.1, Front Row
Macs are more secure because they are so few and far between on the net. Same reason Firefox is so "secure", because it is (or was) so obscure. That is changing now and there have been security patches for Firefox as well.
OK, I ran it on my linux laptop. What is it supposed to tell me? I got a time and a checksum, and all it tells me is that the checksum was validated.
what time do you get? LOL
Well, for the 512K, I got 22.454 secs. How's that rank?
really? Wow that pretty slow
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