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[James Mckenzie]

From: Austin English <[email protected]>
Sent: Jan 13, 2009 7:17 PM
To: James McKenzie <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: meaning of "Hardware" field in bugzilla?

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:15 PM, James McKenzie
<[email protected]> wrote:

Austin English wrote:

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Juan Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
I've seen the same change made a few times in the past (I'd have to
search for it). Looking at other bugzilla's, Mozilla puts Intel Mac
bugs under PC...after all, since they've moved to x86, for all intents
and purposes, Intel Macs are PC's (especially if running Linux rather
than OS X). Those running OS X still can be identified as such by the
OS field.

Yes, my goal was to separate x86/ppc bugs.

Austin:

Yes, PowerPC and Intel Mac bugs need to be separated. Also, I think it is
possible to install Linux to an Intel Mac, although I'm not willing to try
it.

James McKenzie

Yes, it is. Many people tri-boot Windows, OS X and Ubuntu..

You sent this to me, not wine-devel, btw. Might be helpful to send
something to that effect to list.

Sorry bout that. I was not aware there was a Ubuntu for the Mac. Personally, I feel that would be a step backward, but others will feel that Ubuntu is a step up from MacOSX.

It would be a 'good thing' to be able to distingush MacOSX problems that affect the Apple Intel platform as there are hacks available that will allow you to install MacOSX to other Intel based platforms (I know of one that reports to work with the Leveno X60 series for one.)

And for those who think that I'm just a Mac-geek, I've worked with and respect those who use Linux. At the present time, I don't have the time resources to do so.

James McKenzie

[austin987]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:34 AM, James Mckenzie
<[email protected]> wrote:

From: Austin English <[email protected]>
Sent: Jan 13, 2009 7:17 PM
To: James McKenzie <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: meaning of "Hardware" field in bugzilla?

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:15 PM, James McKenzie
<[email protected]> wrote:

Austin English wrote: Austin:

Yes, PowerPC and Intel Mac bugs need to be separated. Also, I think it is
possible to install Linux to an Intel Mac, although I'm not willing to try
it.

James McKenzie

Yes, it is. Many people tri-boot Windows, OS X and Ubuntu..

You sent this to me, not wine-devel, btw. Might be helpful to send
something to that effect to list.

Sorry bout that. I was not aware there was a Ubuntu for the Mac. Personally, I feel that would be a step backward, but others will feel that Ubuntu is a step up from MacOSX.

I don't think you quite understand. Intel Mac's are no longer their
own architechure. They're x86 PC's (only thing really different is
they lack a BIOS, using EFI instead). That said, there IS a PPC
version of Ubuntu as well (Fedora makes a PPC Linux distribution, as
well as a few others).

It would be a 'good thing' to be able to distingush MacOSX problems that affect the Apple Intel platform as there are hacks available that will allow you to install MacOSX to other Intel based platforms (I know of one that reports to work with the Leveno X60 series for one.)

Yes. I've seen it done on several PC's. The hack is to disable OS X's
protection against only running on Apple branded hardware.

And for those who think that I'm just a Mac-geek, I've worked with and respect those who use Linux. At the present time, I don't have the time resources to do so.

James McKenzie

No worries, as long as you're not a Windows fan boy .

--
-Austin