<html><body> <DIV> A posting from yesterday's Slashdot <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p> Switching from Mac to Ubuntu<o:p></o:p> <H3 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><A href="http://apple.slashdot.org/">Apple</A>: <A href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/03/1934251">Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu?</A> <o:p></o:p></H3> Posted by <A href="http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/">timothy</A> on Monday July 03, @<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:time Hour="17" Minute="28">05:28PM</st1:time> from the different-bell-curve-entirely dept. <o:p></o:p> <A href="http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=179"><?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" /><v:shapetype id=_x0000_t75 stroked="f" filled="f" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f"></v:path><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:shapetype><v:shape id=_x000 0_i1025 style="WIDTH: 31.5pt; HEIGHT: 42pt" o:button="t" href="http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=179" alt="OS X" type="#_x0000_t75"><v:imagedata o:href="http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicaposx.gif" src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\fdolinar\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif"></v:imagedata></v:shape></A><o:p></o:p> <A href="http://www.mindpicnic.com/" rel=nofollow>Mindpicnic</A> writes "The <A href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/ubuntu_linux_a_threat_to_mac_o.html">recent switch of two lifelong Mac nerds to Ubuntu</A> hasn't escaped Tim O'Reilly's radar. He cites Jason Kottke: 'If I were Apple, I'd be worried about this. Two lifelong Mac fans are switching away from Macs to PCs running Ubuntu Linux: first it was <A href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks">Mark Pilgrim</A> and now <A href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/29/mark_pilgrims_list_o.html">Cory Doctorow</A>. Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.'"<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The O'Reilly article can be found at:             <A href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/ubuntu_linux_a_threat_to_mac_o.html">http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/ubuntu_linux_a_threat_to_mac_o.html</A> <o:p> </o:p> Mark Pilgrim's article is at:             <A href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks">http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks</A> <o:p> </o:p> Cory Doctrow's article is at:             <A href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/29/mark_pilgrims_list_o.html">http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/29/mark_pilgrims_list_o.html</A> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p></DIV></body></html>