I've bought a 12" ibook about three months ago serving as my home laptop (basically a wireless client +media machine for my living room). I'm very happy with the discs ion I made. I have alll of the power of the unix shell under the hood and being the eye-candy sucker that I am am widely impressed by the UI and general user experience. My favorite apps are: 1. ical(Calander): which I've started to use with remote calenders stored at http:/www..icalx.com I love the drawer which stores extra info and the ability to add comments inline to a meeting. 2. ITerm: The closest terminal to konsole I could find has tabs and is pretty customizable ( I miss being able to rename a tab through the keyboard (like alt-ctrl s in konsole) but it's cool. 3. Last but definitely the coolest app - QuickSilver - http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ Absolutely the coolest application I've seen totally canceling the need to traverse through directories - amazing UI and endless plugins... 4. MPlayer OS/X: I blew a mac expert friend of mine that claimed you couldn't see divx's with hebrew subtitles with mplayer using fribidi to touch up the subs.
Everything "Simply Works" and the onlly down fall I still have (which is shared by linux as well) is the non standard israeli site support through camino (native gecko browser). I found it not to be that expensive I bought mine used through ebay for around 800$ but a new one costs 1k$ in the states. It was my 30th birthday gift from myself and family and have been one of my best decisions (weighed against a X series thinkpad). It's a great solution if you're not to religious about open source and are willing to spend around 5k nis on a laptop. happily content with the outcome of `sed s/linux/OSX/g` lior On 10/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Erez, > > > > As far as I know, you can run (recompile) most open source applications if > they are not already included in the Mac os-x (as Darwin is based on bsd). > > But as far as I know today, there is a hardware limitation (is it?) that can > allow this OS to run only on "Apple" HW. > > I didn't try to run in on other PPC cpu's but I assume they will have some > sort of limitations when it comes to x86 architecture. > > > > Ohad > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Erez D > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:53 AM > To: Linux-IL > Subject: ot: OS X > > > > hi > > i just passed in a store and saw a mac with OS X > it looks pretty, and i remembered i saw that a lot of linux > programs can be ported to work on OS X. > > as i do not like windows, but i need it for various resons > (ms office compatibility, sites that work only on explorer etc...) > > i was wondering: is OS X the solution > e.g. : can it function as both linux (including all linux apps, shells, > daemons etc ...) > and windows ( internet explorer, ms office etc ...) > > how is your impression ? > > btw: can OS-X run on non mac hardware ? > > erez. -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
