“All kinds of people have been saying Apple’s upcoming switch to
Intel X86 microprocessors might hurt Linux desktop adoption. I
can’t see that it will make much of a difference unless Apple
decides to directly compete with Microsoft by selling an operating
system that would run on non-Apple hardware. And if Apple did that,
it would be good for Linux.“For the moment, all Apple is doing is changing some of their
computers’ guts. For most computer users, this means no change at
all. Apple computers will still look like Apples, and will still
run Mac OS X–or XI or XX or whatever…”
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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