This first part will show you the current state of the Linux port for Power Macintosh machines and will describe the distributions and applications that are available. You will see how Mac OS loses to Linux as a server, a development platform, and, sometimes, even as a desktop environment. In this two-part series of articles, I want to show you why Linux can be a vital alternative to Mac OS and Mac OS X. Apple's financial perturbations have also made Mac OS technically backward compared not only with Linux but even with the Windows OS family. And Apple's prospects as a company could worry some, considering that it was near bankruptcy before Steve Jobs brought it back to life after his comeback in 1998.
But Macs are also more expensive and suffer from a lack of applications.
Apple's hardware is usually considered more reliable and technically advanced than that of PC machines. And one of those platforms is the Macintosh.
Although Linux was born on PC machines, it is widely used on different hardware platforms.
