[CS-FSLUG] Blog: Forgot Linux?

[Timothy R. Butler]

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> I've had OSX since 2000, and upgraded accordingly. Has
> the softwar existed, yes. Was it bundled in machines
> that came PRELOADED with a DVD or Superdrive, yes. Did
> every machine come with it, no. Certainly not machines
> without DVDs. My point was that You have to purchase a
> bundled DVD to get software to use DVD's on Windows.
> The fact that Mac's choose to prebundle is no
> different. Either way, you pay for the DVD and the
> drivers and the software all at once. On Linux, you
> can buy a no-name, off-the-boat DVD, skip the extra
> cash for the software and drivers and still be rocking.


	Well, in my estimation this is a simple thing: Apple simply chooses 
only to support DVDs on Apple DVD players. This is the Apple philosophy 
from the get-go. But, I simply wished to point out that any one who 
gets an Apple configuration through an official channel will have the 
Mac OS X DVD player working out of the box (and not some third party 
player). Buying a GNU/Linux distribution will not do that out of the 
box, and sadly enough, the only way to do it is potentially illegal.

	Of course, other than on a laptop, I fail to see the need to play 
DVD's on a computer. Even my nice, big desktop screen isn't as well 
equipped for movie watching as a standard old TV, nor is my computer 
chair as comfortable as the sofa.

	-Tim

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