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Migration from Mac to Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 19, 2009

“Of course you might be thinking “OS X is supposed to be the
most user-friendly OS available, so wouldn’t migrating to Linux be
even more difficults?” Not exactly. There are certain elements of
OS X that inherently make the process of migrating to Linux easier
than when migrating from Windows. Take, for instance, the mounting
of images and drives. This task is completely obfuscated from the
Windows user, but the OS X user actually knows to unmount a drive
before removal. But what about simple, every day usage? How do you
make that more understandable for one moving from OS X to Linux?
Let’s find out.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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