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Byte, Slashdot: Flirting with Mac OS X
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
September 26th 2002
Alpha geeks are salivating over the chewy BSD goodness of Jaguar and the PowerBook is
the apple of their many wandering eyes
A lively thread has begun over at Slashdot entitled "Flirting with Mac OS X." Thus
far, nearly 700 comments have been posted to the thread. That's a lot even for
Slashdot.
The starting point for this long and growing train of thought, and drool, is a Byte
piece by Moshe Bar, a Linux alpha geek of much renown. In the article, he says in part:
I happened to install Mac OS X on a Mac Power8500 back in 1999. That was a
pre-pre-pre-beta, and not much besides the installation worked. Aqua wasn't in that
version yet and so I quickly decided that Mac OS X was going to be a nonissue for me.
Meanwhile, I continued to be generally unhappy with the Linux desktop environment.
Recently, I went to give a speech at a conference and was startled to see all these
cool Mac iBook and PowerBook laptops. It being a Linux conference, I was convinced
they all had Linux running on their notebooks. But then, a young geek of maybe 19 or
20 sitting next to me in a conference room opened up his iBook. I was immediately
attracted by a very intriguing and pleasant desktop on the laptop's gorgeous screen. I
looked closely and it wasn't anything I knew, certainly not Linux. The kid's wireless
card worked flawlessly while Linux on my IBM Thinkpad insisted there was not enough
signal where I was sitting. Then, I recognized the unmistakable dock bar of Mac OS X.
I watched in jealous disgust as the guy next to me fired up a terminal window and
ssh'ed to some server and ran a pine mail session. During the conference I saw maybe
20 or 25 people running Mac OS X. They outnumbered the few people usually coming to
Linux conferences with FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD on their notebooks. That's it, I
decided. I am going to get a Mac OS X laptop, too.
Mmm, Mmm... meat, potatoes and gravy, as well as intestine clearing BSD in one tasty
menu item called OS X. The signal to noise ratio is definitely going up. ThinkPad,
shminkfad...
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