<quote who="Lindsay Holmwood"> > That said, their update tool is totally broken. Case in point: you do a > clean install of OS X, the software updater runs silently in the > background and starts downloading the latest updates, you run the software > update frontend manually, and it discards any partially completed silent > downloads so far (this could be up to 1gb of updates). > > For all its faults, Linux distros still kick the crap out any other OS > when it comes to distributing and applying updates.
Funny story: I was talking to an Apple dude at OSCON a few years ago about how *nix-y Mac OS X was compared to Linux, doing evil surgery underneath OS X, stuff like that. At one point we got onto packaging, and he started asking some incredibly detailed questions about how dpkg/apt worked, how they manage consistency and modes of failure, etc. It turns out that while a big chunk of the Linux world was trying to figure out how to bring "appfolders" to Linux, Apple has been trying to figure out how to bring sane packaging to OS X. The grass is always greener. :-) (How much greener? Each one of those OS X updates you download is a cpio archive which is unpacked straight onto the disk.) Mac OS X... the honey-coated monkey dung of operating systems. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ Self-assertive pants are filled with confidence. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
