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

Tue Dec 6 00:05:29 CET 2011

Em 05-12-2011 20:52, Claire Robinson escreveu:
+> 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
+>
+Just a report.
+
+I've uninstalled the netatalk compiled by me and installed Schlomi 
+newborn package. Just configured it and... It's working just fine!
+Thanks a lot to Schlomi Fish!!!
+
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