Re: MAC Linux laptops (was about blue dragon.)
The powerbooks get you don't they :) I'm using a 15inch powerbook 1ghz with a gig of ram, and I couldn¹t go back to a pc. My workflow has shot up since I switched. I can do everything I could before (with the exception of access - which I have since buried in the dirt) so much faster and easier. On 10/9/03 2:24, Dan O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to sound like a MAC virgin, but x11 apps? What is that? One of my Sony laptops is off to be repaired once again and I was thinking about getting either a MAC or a laptop with Linux on it. Maybe one of those MAC laptops with the huge wide screen. Dan === Previous Message Below === -Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 7:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: about blue dragon. They don't crash. Excepting to install some updates last night, I've had it on with DW and various other programs open for weeks. My win2k office workstation, on the other hand, requires me to restart dreamweaver at least once a day, and reboot once a week. Also, my production servers are all *nix, so I don't have to deal with any of the potential problems moving code from windows dev machines to *nix production. Finally, you can run all the X11 apps you know and love right on the desktop intermixed with your other OSX apps. And if you're still hooked to windows, you can run emulation software or a terminal services client and easily get your MS fix. barneyb --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com -Original Message- From: Dan O'Keefe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: about blue dragon. PowerBooks are awesome development machines! Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ What advantages do you think they have over WIN based. What about homesite and the other MX product line? Dan ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
RE: MAC Linux laptops (was about blue dragon.)
Matt's answer was dead on, but probably not what you were looking for. X11 is the underlying system that drives the GUI of pretty much all *nix applications that use a windowing environment, including the various desktop environments (like KDE and GNOME). With X11 support on the Mac, combined with it's *nix underpinnings, you basically have the ability to run any major *nix product. Without X, you'd be limited to console apps (emacs, pine, lynx) and/or daemons (apache, tomcat, mysql). barneyb --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com -Original Message- From: Dan O'Keefe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: MAC Linux laptops (was about blue dragon.) Not to sound like a MAC virgin, but x11 apps? What is that? One of my Sony laptops is off to be repaired once again and I was thinking about getting either a MAC or a laptop with Linux on it. Maybe one of those MAC laptops with the huge wide screen. Dan === Previous Message Below === -Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 7:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: about blue dragon. They don't crash. Excepting to install some updates last night, I've had it on with DW and various other programs open for weeks. My win2k office workstation, on the other hand, requires me to restart dreamweaver at least once a day, and reboot once a week. Also, my production servers are all *nix, so I don't have to deal with any of the potential problems moving code from windows dev machines to *nix production. Finally, you can run all the X11 apps you know and love right on the desktop intermixed with your other OSX apps. And if you're still hooked to windows, you can run emulation software or a terminal services client and easily get your MS fix. barneyb --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com -Original Message- From: Dan O'Keefe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: about blue dragon. PowerBooks are awesome development machines! Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ What advantages do you think they have over WIN based. What about homesite and the other MX product line? Dan ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
RE: MAC Linux laptops (was about blue dragon.)
Not to sound like a MAC virgin, but x11 apps? What is that? One of my Sony laptops is off to be repaired once again and I was thinking about getting either a MAC or a laptop with Linux on it. Maybe one of those MAC laptops with the huge wide screen. Dan === Previous Message Below === -Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 7:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: about blue dragon. They don't crash. Excepting to install some updates last night, I've had it on with DW and various other programs open for weeks. My win2k office workstation, on the other hand, requires me to restart dreamweaver at least once a day, and reboot once a week. Also, my production servers are all *nix, so I don't have to deal with any of the potential problems moving code from windows dev machines to *nix production. Finally, you can run all the X11 apps you know and love right on the desktop intermixed with your other OSX apps. And if you're still hooked to windows, you can run emulation software or a terminal services client and easily get your MS fix. barneyb --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com -Original Message- From: Dan O'Keefe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: about blue dragon. PowerBooks are awesome development machines! Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ What advantages do you think they have over WIN based. What about homesite and the other MX product line? Dan ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
Re: MAC Linux laptops (was about blue dragon.)
Not to sound like a MAC virgin, but x11 apps? What is that? X11: A specification for device-independent windowing operations on bitmap display devices, developed initially by MIT's Project Athena and now a de facto standard supported by the X Consortium. X was named after an earlier window system called W. It is a window system called X, not a system called X Windows. X uses a client-server protocol, the X protocol. The server is the computer or X terminal with the screen, keyboard, mouse and server program and the clients are application programs. Clients may run on the same computer as the server or on a different computer, communicating over Ethernet via TCP/IP protocols. This is confusing because X clients often run on what people usually think of as their server (e.g. a file server) but in X, it is the screen and keyboard etc. which is being served out to the applications. X is used on many Unix systems. It has also been described as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated. X11R6 (version 11, release 6) was released in May 1994. Matt Liotta President CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.MontaraSoftware.com (888) 408-0900 x901 ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
