26th September 2003, 9:49 PM
Exactly. And that's why platforms like Mac and Linux can't compete with Microsoft. So something like WINE is really cool because you can use a non-MS OS and still use the apps you need to. And that in turn can help these other platforms grow.
There may be a Mac version of Linux (I'm not exactly sure, there are a few bajillion distributions out there), but I don't think you could use a standard Red Hat or Mandrake, for example. Linux was designed to be "Unix for PC's", and it's gotta be very dependent on the architecture.
There may be a Mac version of Linux (I'm not exactly sure, there are a few bajillion distributions out there), but I don't think you could use a standard Red Hat or Mandrake, for example. Linux was designed to be "Unix for PC's", and it's gotta be very dependent on the architecture.