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Intel should care if Apple wins. Apple is in the best position to change architectures. Again. Ubuntu is probably in good shape. But Linux by nature can't reall

by jfoutz 13y ago

Intel should care if Apple wins. Apple is in the best position to change architectures. Again. Ubuntu is probably in good shape. But Linux by nature can't really switch primary architecture in an afternoon quite the way Apple did.

Raphael 13y ago
Sure it can. Linux can be compiled for ARM.
- jfoutz 13y ago
  I'm not saying linux can't be compiled for ARM. I'm saying it's easy for Apple to just declare all new hardware that runs OSX is now ARM. It's not possible (or remotely desirable) for Linus to one day say, that's it, ARM only.