Future of Mac-on-Linux?

Samuel Rydh samuel at ibrium.se
Tue Jun 7 17:31:13 MDT 2005


On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:51:35PM +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> Sebastian Gregorzyk wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >due to the fact Apple is switching to the x86 platform I was wondering how
> >far this will affect the development of Mac-on-Linux? Is it still worth to
> >make MoL work on a G5? 

Definitely. Even without Apple, there are also interesting applications
for MOL.

> I would have thought so... Mac users don't tend to upgrade their 
> machines very often because they remain useful for so long.  I reckon it 
> will be at least 5 years before x86 Macs are predominant, and until then 
> Mac-on-Linux will remain an essential tool for many of us.  Even if we 
> can't use it with Tiger yet :)

/Samuel


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