I use OSX at work. (I have a PC running Win2000 and a B&W G3 running OSX 10.1.1) The OSX is great if you just consider the OS itself. Everything works great, and the speed is good (it's a lot better on a G4) When it comes to using applications, especially non-Apple OSX native ones, it starts to get into a muddle. I have had Mozilla cause plenty of crashes, IE 5 is more stable, but it also has it's unsavory moments. The General BSD tools are there. You would feel at home when you go to the Terminal. The segmentation of prefs to a System Level and a User level is great. Many of the system prefs are just links to the user prefs. In other words, you can mess up all you want under your login, but it won't break the system. There are a lot of tools/files that are not in their "right" location or seem not to me used at all. The password file does not appear to be what the system uses, but it is still there.
Anyway, many of the config files are in XML. One main thing lacking in the system is a well defined security (or maybe well documentd one) I find that I can change the root password even when I am logged on as an administrator (which is not as powerful as root). Anyway, for anyone who can, I do recommend it. It is well worth looking at another implementation of Unix. George On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:28:30 +1300 Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:35:30PM -0500, George Jones (IT) wrote: > > I'd rather stab myself in the eyes with a blunt, rusty screwdriver than use > > MacOS. > > > > I have 2 macs at home. The powermac, my 3 year old uses and the 040 (840av) > > has BSD on it, but currently resides in a closet in my basement. I never > > liked Mac OS. > > Here's an interesting thought (although I realise this is drifting OT for > the mailing list.. it's still interesting)... > > Macs are particularily popular because they have a basically flat > learning curve. You can more or less work out how to use them from the > moment you turn one on. > > So what do people think of Mac OS X? It's based on a *nix (BSD?) core. > Contains a lot of stuff that has a Unix flavour to it, man pages, a > compiler and so forth. And it runs on a GUI that has made Macs famous > for a long time among people new to computers. > > I can't stand Macs myself.. for the first and foremost reason that if my > mouse doesn't have at least 5 buttons and a wheel I won't use it :-) > > Who here has some experience with Mac OS X and can share what it's like > as a unix-style newbies computer? > >
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