On 2014-08-26, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Apple apparently preferred users upgrading to 10.7,
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>> Considering that Apple dropped support for 10.6 it is imho grossly
>> negligent to connect a OSX 10.6 machine to the internet. Upgrade to OSX
>> >=10.7 or Linux ;-)
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> You always say stuff like that ("buy the poor guy a few gig of ram", etc.).
> But it's not "grossly" negligent if you aren't going to phishing sites
well, our sysadmins told me in no uncertain terms few months ago that they
won't let a laptop running OSX 10.6 anywhere near our intranet.
Go figure.
> and it's probably not really an option for a lot of users to upgrade or
> switch to Linux - it is not JUST inertia that has all those people keeping
> XP or even older versions of Windows, for instance. As an example, I knew
> a lot of people who upgraded to 10.5 back in the day from 10.4 and really
> regretted it because it made the machine so much slower. Especially
> regarding Linux conversion, I can throw a couple thick (and scholarly)
> books I just read about real costs that entail at you while you duck - and
> I don't say that because I think Linux is bad. Plop this argument into the
> developing world with few IT resources of the sort needed to make Linux fun
> and easy, or to try to just randomly find exactly the chip you need at the
> price you can pay ...
Developing world is used to run pirated software, don't you known this?
Linux runs on pretty much every Intel box, provided it is not bleeding edge.
Heck, it runs on Apple hardware too - it did so even *before* OSX came about.
The 1st laptop I was able to afford, a toilet seat design iBook, came
with OS 9, and I was running YDL (Yellow Dog Linux) on it.
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