Sarge released

Old news by now - Sarge Releases. Congratulations all!

Just about everyone who reads this will of course know this fact already, but the real reason for me writing is to publicly distance myself from claims from silly claims that Debian never releases :-) AJ can now stop sending evil glares in my direction.

tech/linux | 07 Jun 2005 | #

Apple moving from PPC to x86

Wow.

Who would have thought that just as Apple gains momentum with their products, they take a huge risk and change processors?

Given the unavoidable teething problems in both hardware and software that'll come, I can see them struggling to makes sales for 12 months at least. I mean, who'd buy a Mac today? - no future in your hardware or software purchase. Who'd buy a 1st generation x86 Apple when they come out? And the 2nd generation stuff x86 couldn't be available until at least June 2007 - and that's 2 years away!

Apple make nice kit, and if they supported an open-source DRI-enabled graphics driver for xorg I would have bought a powerbook already. That's definately off the cards. Now the switch has been made, Apple will need to be become very price competitve - no-one's going to buy a similarly spec'd laptop for $AUD1500 more just because of an Apple logo. I guess that's a good thing for Mac OS X aficionados.

I hope Apple survives all this - they do nice hardware. I just hope they also realise they need to better support the future of computing.

BTW, this has new meaning now.

tech/misc | 07 Jun 2005 | #