The site is about Squeak, not about OS.

I've been running Macs since 1988 and have a fine collection in my basement. I still have a working OS X box and an OS 9 laptop box that my daughter uses. My sons both run Ubuntu daily. My wife runs Windows. I mostly use my laptop from work running Windows.

I run Squeak on all of them. Often the same image (the old Mac laptop is the exception).

Now if you wanted a reason to favor Mac, Squeak's history traces through Apple Smalltalk (and some of the GUI still has some Mac-isms that go back to something like System 6 or earlier (before we started calling it OS anything).

The reason to list Windows first is probably because that is the most frequently downloaded.

The pro Mac and anti-Windows stuff makes no sense to me at all. Most companies are incredibly closed when they have the dominant position (Apple iTunes) and more open when they aren't (IBM). Most are quite schizophrenic in this regard with some groups within the company being more open and others more closed. If you want to know which is which, check their market position. Even Microsoft has been open-sourcing some components; RedHat has tried to close up parts of their Enterprise offering.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Michael van der Gulik mikevdg@gulik.co.nz wrote:

Janko Mivšek wrote:

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Hi,

I'm just implementing a download box component for a squeaksite demo and wondering if:

• Linux should be added
• order changed: Linux, Mac, Windows, Others

Now it is Windows, Mac and Others (see top left box on every page).

I think adding Linux is a must, because Linux is prime example of Open Source movement, part of it we are too.

That's also a reason that Windows as the complete antitesis of OS movement is put down from the first place. Well, there are still many Windows users coming as newcomers, but I think there are more and more Mac users right now, so ...

What do you think?

Being a pragmatist, I think it would be better to get a survey from the rest of the community or get download statistics and list them in order of popularity.

I don't really care what the hardware or OS is; Squeak is it's own environment that turns everything below it into a replaceable commodity.

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