[TriLUG] Re: Macs (was RFC: Mailing list protocol FAQ entry)

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Magnus Hedemark wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Tarus Balog wrote:
> 
> > I'm assuming this is troll bait, right? Darwin, the underlying O/S in  
> > Panther is open, as is most of the software I run on my Mac. While I  
> > wouldn't ask a Mac-specific question on this list, since much of the  
> > software you run on Linux runs natively on Mac via the fink project,  
> > from the Gimp to KDE to OpenOffice, I think that many Mac questions  
> > would be valid here.
> 
> It's worth noting that  our own Ben Reed (aka RangerRick) is a bit of a 
> demigod in the Mac community for his work on fink and porting KDE to OS X.  
> ROUS is also a geek circle celeb for his work on Apache, which is built 
> into OS X.  Not only are these projects on-topic, they are being driven by 
> TriLUG members.  Makes this stuff doubly on-topic.

While I'm not disputing what Magnus has to say, note that there is also a 
group specifically aimed at "hardcore" users of Macs and OS X -- see 
http://www.hardcider.org/ .  This group is local to the Triangle and was 
started by TriLUG members.

--Jeremy

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