Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

Just two observations, only generally related: If you have an OSX system without the installation discs, and you want to install a free C/C++ compiler, the *only* way I have found is with a download of several hundred MB from the official OSX website with *lots* of extra stuff, examples, docs, developer's tools, for many different languages. Surely won't matter for the majority of people who would even consider Mac, but *why*? Why on earth would anyone make that decision?? Especially considering that it's actually GPL software created by someone else! On whether Windows or Mac is more important in pro audio, I haven't gotten so close to the "professional" audio world, but I went to a pretty modern university, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and right as I was graduating they announced the decision to require ALL students to purchase MacBooks with their own money. Not just music students, but theater, dance, sculpture, etc., everyone! I don't know if such a decision reflects a wide market trend in the art world (in my mind that's impossible, the trend is towards Linux), but it indicates some kind of power over Windows. -Chuckk On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Frank Barknecht<fbar(a)footils.org> wrote: -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com