[vox-tech] Apple & Linux

[Alex Mandel]

Seth Nagao wrote:
> On 1/10/07, Matin Hashemi <matin.hashemi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everybody :-)
>>
>> It has been a few weeks since I decided to buy one of these cute black 
>> 13"
>> MacBooks. Yes, I love black :-) see there ARE people who pay just for a
>> color and Apple sale guys are very well aware of that! Anyways, the 
>> thing I
>> "really" like about it is that I can "hopefully" run any application from
>> all OS's (Linux, Apple, Win) on that. Sweet :-) ha?
> 
> As a fellow owner of a black Core 2 Duo MacBook, the "black tax" is
> less so since it now comes with a
> 120GB hard drive than a 80GB.  It doesn't offset the price difference,
> but at least it isn't just for Krylon's finest matte finish...
> 
> I've heard Parallels is good, but I boot directly into Linux.  I don't
> play with Linux too much on it since the wireless card isn't supported
> (or has that changes in the past two months?).  Might I suggest
> MacPorts as an OSS solution?  http://www.macports.org/

For those that may not know, there's a contingent of Mac users 
implementing wine on Mac and apparently the move to intel lit a fire and 
the development is stream-rolling up close to where the main branch of 
wine is:
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX

Alex