[Gvsig_english] gv_sig and future on mac os

[Simon Cropper]

Hi All,

On Friday 22 October 2010 2:23:16 am Chris Puttick wrote:
> what then?

My son has been using a iMac for several years and resisted moving away from 
the computer and its operating system for all the wrong reasons (i.e. vendor 
lock in with iPhone, iTunes, etc).

Recently he moved away from his iPhone and now only use iTunes and comparable 
music related products.

Faced with an operating system that only allowed Apple products and one that 
in recent times is just getting slower and slower (a bit like windows XP and 
Vista was doing a year or so back), I convinced him to move to Ubuntu (well he 
really convinced himself as I have been nagging him for sometime. The pivotal 
point was when he saw me log on and open a program on my machine in seconds 
compared to minutes on his).

After backing up his system (2-3 hours), it took less than one hour to set up 
the base system in Ubuntu. He is enjoying the OS, the 'free' software and 
lightning fast OS (at least compared to OS-X).

Where to from here? Move your iMac to Ubuntu. You won't be sorry.

I know it sound drastic but it really isn't.

P.S. It's funny how things are not apparent until they hit you in the face. My 
son, while looking at the various movies he had downloaded to iTunes, asked me 
how he could view these files as they were in a proprietary format that could 
only be read by Apple software. He was livid that he could not view these files 
using other software as he had paid good money for these movies. After a bit 
of searching we were able to find a conversion routine written in Open Source 
that could convert the apple movie format to a more commonly encountered and 
used format.

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Cheers Simon

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