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Netbooks—the low-power and lightweight mini-notebooks that have surged in popularity—practically beg for some tweaking and customization to increase the functionality of their diminutive screens and relatively wimpy processors. Find yourself the perfect netbook operating system from this fine selection. We’re told Linux is the only OS with a growing market share: Windows and Mac OS X actually shrank. The Net Applications report also shows Windows 7 already dwarfing all versions of Mac OS combined. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers review the data. Mac clone maker Psystar last week indefinitely suspended sales of its only product, a $50 utility that lets customers install Apple’s Snow Leopard operating system on generic Intel-based computers. Apple is making a lot of money these days. The more money it makes, the greater the contempt for its customers it seems to display. A critical bug recently discovered in FreeBSD, and the speed with which this bug was resolved, illustrates this rather well. If you use Apple’s products in your business, be afraid; [...] Apple has closed down its project to develop ZFS for Mac OS X. An announcement on the project’s site simply says “The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly”. Sun’s ZFS filesystem was believed by some to be a contender for Apple’s next filesystem and the appearance [...] News Analysis: While Microsoft still holds the overwhelming advantage in terms of Windows’ installed base, the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard weeks before the release of Windows 7 will renew the years-long battle between these two platforms. Apple gained some market share during the Windows Vista years. But holding and expanding its share [...] You’ve probably read one of the many articles going around recently about how you should be preparing to incorporate Macs into your network environment. Save yourself the bother: Google’s announcement of its Chrome OS last month sounded the death knell for the prospects of Macs in the enterprise. It just goes to show you how much people love Apple. Would anyone ever post an article about SanDisk’s five worst products, or Toshiba’s five worst products? We complain because we love, so stop yer whinin’ fanboys. Wired compiled an entertaining list from the Apple rogue’s gallery. I spent a few minutes trying to think [...] As had been rumored, Apple will launch Snow Leopard, its newest operating system, on Friday, the company said today. The Mac OS X v10.5.8 Update is recommended for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard users and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. For detailed information about the security content of this update, please visit this website. Apple has filed a Motion for Relief from Stay [PDF] with the bankruptcy court, and a hearing has been set for June 17th at 3 PM in Miami. Apple asks the court to modify the stay to allow the litigation in California to proceed to a final determination. Guess what case it relies [...] If you’ve run older PowerPC-based Macs in your businesses you may be wondering what to do with them now that Apple has made the transition to Intel, and the G3, G4 and G5 processors are beginning to show their age. I’ve never been a big fan of American Idol or reality TV in general, but the tit for tat going on between Microsoft and Apple ads reminds me a bit of a reality TV competition with bloggers acting as Simon and Paula and the gang. We watch. Sometimes we laugh. Sometimes we sneer, but it’s [...] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against Apple to defend the First Amendment rights of a noncommercial online forum. The suit comes in response to pressure from Apple lawyers that forced “BluWiki” to remove discussions of how to make third-party media management software work with the iPhone and iPod. Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, could ignore the call of the motherboard no longer. He is going back to work — this time at Fusion-io, a start-up company that tweaks computers to let them tap vast amounts of storage at very quick rates. Taking aim at the Microsoft Office franchise on the Macintosh, IBM announced Tuesday that its free Lotus Symphony suite of personal productivity applications will come out of beta for the Apple Inc. hardware platform later this month. Bashing Microsoft for being closed and proprietary has been a popular pastime in the media and the IT industry for many years, and there is no doubt that much of this has been well deserved. Even before Linux was created, Microsoft has been scorned by members of the free-software community. Its products are decried as defective by design, and its sometimes questionable business practices as an obstacle to technological innovation. That’s old news. What amazes me is Apple’s track record for openness is even worse than Microsoft’s. As a director of the Linux Foundation and a Linux SCSI developer, James Bottomley opened the Linux-Kongress in Hamburg, Germany this week with a keynote investigating the commonalities and differences among the various Open Source operating systems. He describes Linux as the liveliest variant among them. Google unveiled the first Android-powered cell phone last week, a T-Mobile-branded device dubbed the G1. Comparisons to Apple’s iPhone were immediate — and that is a good thing for Android, when you consider what a raucous and contentious week it was for iPhone developers. | |||||
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