Comments on: Finally, not in lame-oh music devoid desktop

By: Matt Casters on Data Integration » Feature complete

Matt Casters on Data Integration » Feature complete — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:22:42 +0000

[...] OK, it’s about time I created another category on my blog. So I said to myself: “There must be thousands of people blogging about Linux, why not you?” I really love my Linux laptop. I really do. Some people like to complain about this or that not working and usually it concerns some multi-media thing not working. Up until recently I would have sighed and said that, yes indeed, Linux on the desktop is not really there yet, maybe next year. [...]

By: Lee Cheng

Lee Cheng — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:56:41 +0000

Nick,

Come over to the light side! Life on a Mac is sweeter by far… and Parallels solves all your “must use Windows” woes. Who knows, I might even be able to score you a deal on a barely used 17″ MacBook Pro, as my techno lust draws me to the oh so temptingly smaller and sexier black MacBook.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:35:01 +0000

Hey Nick,

I have just made the switch to a new macbook pro and I have enjoyed every aspect of the switch. The only downside is that Oracle will not work on the new Intel based machines. But Parallels or the soon-to-be-released vmware fixes that minor probem.

Cheers,
Ben

By: Joseph A. di Paolantonio

Joseph A. di Paolantonio — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:55:07 +0000

Nick, here’s an interesting view of SLED10 on a Thinkpad and MacOSX to boot

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/08/lenovo_to_prelo.html

I wonder if you agree.

By: Matt Casters

Matt Casters — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:42:39 +0000

Mac hé? I don’t know Nick, this guy seems to disagree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEa-2tUaidk
He seems very serious about it… Mmm it’s a tough call to make. Good luck with that.

By: ngoodman

ngoodman — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:59:29 +0000

We’re finding that out more and more these days, eh? WHO I know is definitely helping more than what I know…Although, I’m not sure that’s a good thing to espouse pubilcally!

I’m feeling the siren call of OS X. Need some things like printer drivers, wireless firmware that doesn’t need patched, java that works with desktop manager, etc. I love “not windows” but too much I need to do quickly and OS X may be the ticket… thoughts?

By: Matt Casters

Matt Casters — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:31:32 +0000

Actually, what I did to get multi-media fixed on my l33t dual core laptop was going over to the MPlayer guys (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) at the Linuxtag conference a couple of months ago. Not only did they manage to have including MPEG playback, MP3 etc. running in a couple of minutes, they are also really nice guys. But, they write open source software, what do you expect?
Remember Nick, it’s now what you know, it’s WHO you know…