[KLUG Members] Linux and MacIntosh

[Rusty Yonkers]

I have been thinking a lot about the talk about the Lindows software
and the impact on the computing world (does that sound grand??).  I
do not think that Linux will easily start to make significant inroads
into the home desktop market.  There is too great a learning curve
with a Linux system for most home users.  This will relegate Linux to
a niche market (although a large one) and make marketing somewhat
more difficult.  I think that there is a solution though.

The Apple MacIntosh is a very easy computer to use. Now with OS X it
has a Unix style backend too.  If Linux developers would start to
focus on putting together software for both Linux and Mac (Windows
could be added too but always release on Linux and Mac simultaniously
or close together) then there could be a marketing in.  Many
companies want to deploy on the corporate desktop stuff that is also
used at home (at least for things like an office suite).  If Linux
software developers helped to make the MacIntosh platform more
desireable at home because of additional software availability, then
more people would be using MacIntosh.  They would be using software
that is the same as on Linux.  This would make it easier to get Linux
into the corporate environment because the application software would
be the same and people would be familiar/comfortable with it.  



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