[TriLUG] Deploying Linux to...Aunt Marge

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 10:26:41 EST 2006


On 2/27/06, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll tell you what I did for my non-technical parents and sister - migrated
> them to OS X and let them be.  Both my sister and my parents have been
> burned by out-of-date or non-existent anti-virus, lost data, etc, etc, etc,
> standard stuff really when using Microsoft operating systems in conjunction
> with high-speed Internet.

The no-viruses mantra has always been a good point for the Mac, but
the hakerz are starting to see it as a target:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114099964776283796-ZEID6okGb8UJgH41ZE6q2xSPqWs_20070227.html?mod=blogs

I've been a long term Mac advocate (actually an Apple advocate going
back to the Apple ][), I bought an early Mac (okay, I did wait for the
512K version), my wife was one of the founders of what is now TriMug,
back when it was called AppleSeeds, and I was one of its first
members.

Lately though I'm beginning to be more and more worried that Apple's
days as a PC manufacturer might well be past the tipping point and on
the downward slope following IBM.  The more I think about it, the more
I think that Dvorak might have had a point in his recent,
appropriately iconoclastic, piece:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1927885,00.asp

The day might well come when Apple, having completed the takeover of
Disney, just gives up and sells their PC manufacturing business to an
Asian company.

I hope not, but...
--
Rick DeNatale

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