[Mageia-discuss] Why Mageia isn't a "Lion Friendly" distribution?

Mon Dec 5 23:52:38 CET 2011

On 05/12/11 21:28, Luiz Alberto Saba wrote:
+> Em 05-12-2011 19:08, nicolas vigier escreveu:
+>> On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Luiz Alberto Saba wrote:
+>>
+>>> Em 05-12-2011 16:15, Maarten Vanraes escreveu:
+>>>> Op maandag 05 december 2011 14:57:06 schreef Luiz Alberto Saba:
+>>>> [..]
+>>>>> Then I was wandering... Why not make mageia more "mac friendly"?
+>>>>> I think that it will be a good thing for mageia (nowadays almost
+>>>>> everyone has some apple device at home (iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac...))
+>>>>> Comments?
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Luiz Alberto Saba
+>>>> listen, i don't have any apple stuff either, but i think alot of
+>>>> these replies
+>>>> are still a bit disrespectful, ok, maybe the OP shouldn't assume
+>>>> this, but
+>>>> that particular comment isn't really the gist of what he's saying...
+>>> I don't think in terms of respectful or not.
+>>> What i fear is that this position is isolationist.
+>>> What good to us is to ignore the reality?
+>>> Just take a look at the sales numbers.
+>>> Apple users (any device) are much greater (in numbers) than the sum
+>>> of the
+>>> users of ALL linux distributions.
+>> Actually we could say that Linux users (any device) are much greater
+>> (in numbers) than the sum of the users of ALL apple devices. The most
+>> used phone operating system is by far Android, not iOS.
+> I forgot abot that... ;-)
+>>
+>> But we don't care about sales numbers, supposed number of users, etc ...
+>> Mageia is a community distribution, so support for interoperability with
+>> other OSs/devices only depends whether someone is willing to spend some
+>> time working on it. Statements about everybody having apple devices
+>> or sales number are useless and only encourage trolling ...
+> Not my intention. English is not my native language and I'm not so
+> fluent to express my point of view in an adequate manner. So, sometimes,
+> some shortcuts lead to unwanted results. Sorry.
+>>
+>
+
+Personally I've never been able to afford Apple hardware, it is very 
+shiny and tempting though :D
+
+It always falls to Linux to be the interfacing OS, Microsoft makes no 
+effort to interface with Linux and neither does Apple. It always falls 
+to Linux to make the effort to interface with the proprietary, so it 
+makes good sense for us to do all we can to improve our support of Apple 
+devices.
+
+It would be good to be the 'go-to' distribution perhaps for Apple 
+owners. Lion Friendly has a nice ring to it!
+
+Claire
+