Funny. I think I've only found this just now.
Congratulations and thank you for the very detailed report! I'm sure many readers here will find it very useful and will be using it as a reference documentation.
I never went through the hassle of a triple boot installation myself. To be honest, I almost never use my native Vista installation at home and whenever Linux is running, I'm asking myself after one or two minutes what do I want to do with it and why did I install and launch it in the first place? There are literally no applications for it that would attract me to the platform, and the only machine that I know that is supported out of the box by GNU/Linux is an Intel Mac Mini. And when I need a free server OS, I prefer FreeBSD over GNU/Linux anytime.
I also do not care much for multi-platform development anymore - I do not want to support Windows and GNU/Linux is a market for system administrators or employed software developers. I am already the first in a Windows environment and I somehow do not want to become the latter when I'm good and ready to finally quit my current job.
How does your native/BootCamped Windows read and write OS X partitions without third party drivers? The only way I know is to install MediaFour's MacDrive on Windows; only then the OS X filesystems become visible and accessible.
Ubuntu Linux always managed to access the OS X filesystems, but OS X was not able to access the native Linux partitions. However, it does not really matter as long as everybody can access at least the OS X filesystem.
Universal binaries vs native-only binaries: If you want to sell Mac software, Universal binaries are the only way to go. I don't think the regular Mac user will accept anything else, and most of them do not even know or care for what CPU they have in their machine anyway.
Congratulations and thank you for the very detailed report! I'm sure many readers here will find it very useful and will be using it as a reference documentation.
I never went through the hassle of a triple boot installation myself. To be honest, I almost never use my native Vista installation at home and whenever Linux is running, I'm asking myself after one or two minutes what do I want to do with it and why did I install and launch it in the first place? There are literally no applications for it that would attract me to the platform, and the only machine that I know that is supported out of the box by GNU/Linux is an Intel Mac Mini. And when I need a free server OS, I prefer FreeBSD over GNU/Linux anytime.
I also do not care much for multi-platform development anymore - I do not want to support Windows and GNU/Linux is a market for system administrators or employed software developers. I am already the first in a Windows environment and I somehow do not want to become the latter when I'm good and ready to finally quit my current job.
How does your native/BootCamped Windows read and write OS X partitions without third party drivers? The only way I know is to install MediaFour's MacDrive on Windows; only then the OS X filesystems become visible and accessible.
Ubuntu Linux always managed to access the OS X filesystems, but OS X was not able to access the native Linux partitions. However, it does not really matter as long as everybody can access at least the OS X filesystem.
Universal binaries vs native-only binaries: If you want to sell Mac software, Universal binaries are the only way to go. I don't think the regular Mac user will accept anything else, and most of them do not even know or care for what CPU they have in their machine anyway.