Archive for April, 2008



Today, Apple released a 64-Bit, Intel-only version of Java 6 for Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard. That’s more than a year after Java 6 was officially launched for Windows, GNU/Linux and Solaris. People were upset when Leopard was shipped without Java 6, and now they are upset because Apple gives them a 64-Bit, Intel-only version.
There’s [...]

You might have heard or read somewhere that there is this small company called Psystar that is selling regular PC hardware with a basically cracked version of Mac OS X. More precisely, they are selling a computer, and if the customers pays an extra fee, they sell a legal copy of Mac OS X Leopard [...]

The question was raised on a blog that I found on the Mono project’s “Monologue”, and Sandy Armstrong, the author, answered it from a developer’s perspective.
This is the original blog’s URL:
http://automorphic.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-do-we-bother-with-linux-also-uia.html
I know it is one of those useless flamewar topics, but here is my new standard response to GNU/Linux zealots, without the intent of starting [...]