[Mageia-discuss] Why Mageia isn't a "Lion Friendly" distribution?

[Claire Robinson]

On 05/12/11 21:28, Luiz Alberto Saba wrote:
> Em 05-12-2011 19:08, nicolas vigier escreveu:
>> On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Luiz Alberto Saba wrote:
>>
>>> Em 05-12-2011 16:15, Maarten Vanraes escreveu:
>>>> Op maandag 05 december 2011 14:57:06 schreef Luiz Alberto Saba:
>>>> [..]
>>>>> Then I was wandering... Why not make mageia more "mac friendly"?
>>>>> I think that it will be a good thing for mageia (nowadays almost
>>>>> everyone has some apple device at home (iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac...))
>>>>> Comments?
>>>>>
>>>>> Luiz Alberto Saba
>>>> listen, i don't have any apple stuff either, but i think alot of
>>>> these replies
>>>> are still a bit disrespectful, ok, maybe the OP shouldn't assume
>>>> this, but
>>>> that particular comment isn't really the gist of what he's saying...
>>> I don't think in terms of respectful or not.
>>> What i fear is that this position is isolationist.
>>> What good to us is to ignore the reality?
>>> Just take a look at the sales numbers.
>>> Apple users (any device) are much greater (in numbers) than the sum
>>> of the
>>> users of ALL linux distributions.
>> Actually we could say that Linux users (any device) are much greater
>> (in numbers) than the sum of the users of ALL apple devices. The most
>> used phone operating system is by far Android, not iOS.
> I forgot abot that... ;-)
>>
>> But we don't care about sales numbers, supposed number of users, etc ...
>> Mageia is a community distribution, so support for interoperability with
>> other OSs/devices only depends whether someone is willing to spend some
>> time working on it. Statements about everybody having apple devices
>> or sales number are useless and only encourage trolling ...
> Not my intention. English is not my native language and I'm not so
> fluent to express my point of view in an adequate manner. So, sometimes,
> some shortcuts lead to unwanted results. Sorry.
>>
>

Personally I've never been able to afford Apple hardware, it is very 
shiny and tempting though :D

It always falls to Linux to be the interfacing OS, Microsoft makes no 
effort to interface with Linux and neither does Apple. It always falls 
to Linux to make the effort to interface with the proprietary, so it 
makes good sense for us to do all we can to improve our support of Apple 
devices.

It would be good to be the 'go-to' distribution perhaps for Apple 
owners. Lion Friendly has a nice ring to it!

Claire