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[CS-FSLUG] Macs replace university's Linux desktops

"國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)" survivor at brisnet.org
Fri May 27 23:22:18 EDT 2005


I don't know why they'd choose to pay for something that's built from
mostly open source freebies - Mac OSX doesn't come cheap too.

Don Parris wrote:

>On 5/27/05, "國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)" <survivor at brisnet.org> wrote:
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>>Hope of Linux tackling the desktop market has suffered a reality check
>>with the University of Melbourne's Trinity College dumping the penguin
>>in favor of Unix cousin Mac OS X, not x86-based rival, Windows.
>>
>>http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/05/24/maclinux/index.php
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>At least we're losing out to a *NIX system.  That's better than the
>alternative.  To me, it's not that big a set-back.  It's a shame that
>they chose proprietary over freedom.  Still, at least they chose
>stability over instability.
>
>Don
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