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Luis: I long ago stopped reading OS News. A couple of years ago, I started reading it, and it was good and useful. Then, when they offered the subscription, I even got it to help support the site. But, for the last year, it’s been going downhill. Now, It’s basically useless gossip, and worse than not reading it at all, because so much of it is just plain wrong that figuring out what is actually correct is not worth the effort.

Give up, and just use gnomefiles.org. Ignore OS News, it’s not useful or credible anymore.

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I found this to be interesting. Obviously, there’s exagguration for comedic effect, but he pretty much nails the problems with the movie.

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Well, I just unsubscribed from LKML. It’s been coming for a while, but I’m kinda sad that it’s actually happened now. The truth of the matter is, I haven’t actually been reading anything but the highlights for several months now, and I have to go in and mark hundereds of messages a day as read, and now that I’m a Gentoo dev, I’m getting all that Gentoo related mail, and I just don’t have time.

More importantly, LKML has been getting less and less interesting to me. It used to be, there were innovative features and ideas being proposed and debated on the list. Recently, it doesn’t seem like anything interesting is going on, just flames and git development. I guess this is a side effect of the whole “permenant 2.6.x” thing, but maybe it’s just my interests changing.

I guess I’m going to have to start following kerneltrap or something to get the news about the kernel that I used to get first hand.

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Well, the rumors were true. Apple has jumped from PPC to Intel. Personally, I see this as the beginning of the end of Apple as a computer hardware company. They just won’t be able to sustain their margins once the move is made.

Two options I see for Apple here, long term: Either they make a deal with Dell (or whoever) to ship OSX as an option, or they lock OSX to their hardware somehow, and keep it from running on generic wintel hardware. If they do the former, maybe I’ll pick up a copy of OSX to play with. If they do the latter, then nothing has changed, as far as I’m concerned, except that it’s even harder for Apple to justify their margins.

We’ll see, but hell has just frozen over.

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