Is this a new trend? A couple of well known techie types--Mark Pilgrim and Cory Doctorow--are switching from Mac to Ubuntu despite their long alliegience to Apple products. Inside Open Source explains that this is because Apple has become less "friendly towards open source" and because of its use of DRM and proprietary file formats. Certainly, if one can put aside cult of Mac bias, one does have to question how friendly Steve Jobs is to open source and intellectual property reform now that he is in bed with Disney. Definite ideological conflict of interest now that he is a major stock holder in the media conglomerate.
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Mac applications and corresponding Linux options
Mark Pilgrim has posted a list of Linux applications he is using as replacements for the one's which he used on the Mac.
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Just as interesting is the way they're distributing Ubuntu and related software. Download a CD image (PPC, x86, or whatever your chip), burn it, start up from the CD and you're running Linux, with OpenOffice, Firefox, nVu. If it works for you, the same CD will do an install. Download MoinMoin (via a download manager built in to the system) and you're a wiki. And the Ubuntu documentation wiki is a model of the genre. One drawback: No out of the box support for Airport Extreme wireless cards yet. Other cards work fine. There's lots of info on how to hack Linux to get Extreme to work, but I'll use an ethernet cord until the next release. Apparently, writing drivers for the card depends on some propietary code from Apple. (Like MS would be any more open.) mcmorgan