[kwlug-disc] Mac OS and Linux

[john at netdirect.ca]

kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org wrote on 06/30/2009 02:29:26 PM:
> From: Oksana Goertzen <ogoertzen at gmail.com>

> Mac:  -slick, good design/good support, well-tuned hardware (discrete 
> graphics out of my reach price-wise), good range of apps for kids -
> it's what they get exposed to in school, "linux-like" OS and Linux in 
VM,
> 13", take it into an Apple store for fixing, and my older son has an 
iTouch
> and loved Garage Band, shiny display, some buy-in to proprietary apps,
> equipment and "lifestyle", "expensive"

You could run Linux directly on the MacBook. People do it.
 
> P.S.  Anyone hacking AppleTV?

I have. If I had a MacBook I could have just created a patch-stick instead 
of disassembling the case. It went back together fine and looks good, It's 
just me that knows the rubber skin is now a little loose. There are great 
online instructions on hacking them.

Now I need someone with a Mac to compile MythTV for me. The version of 
MythFrontEnd that run on AppleTV don't get the remote commands. Apple 
changed how the commands are received between firmware versions.

John Van Ostrand
Net Direct Inc.
 
CTO, co-CEO
564 Weber St. N. Unit 12
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Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6
 
john at netdirect.ca
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Linux Solutions / IBM Hardware
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