Subject: Re: MacOS X 10.1
From: Michael Giffin (Michael.Giffin@Colorado.EDU)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 10:35:24 MST
At 11:07 PM -0800 11/8/01, Joe Buczek wrote:
>Adam,
> If you don't think Linux is for you, you are
>"Free" to not use it. This is not the case for average
>people who buy proprietary hardware running
>proprietary software from any vendor, including Apple.
>
(and all sorts of other interesting things). quite informative.
for Adam , i will say that i don't consider OSX ready for prime time
either. i like it as an OS, mostly because of the UNIX, but too many
apps are either still Classic or not fully implemented in the carbon
or cocoa versions. also, several UNIX apps i use are not yet
available in X, i think largely because of Aqua, but they exist in
Linux. not all UNIX apps can be compiled for OSX at this point. so
i continue to use, on this machine, OS9, OSX, and YDL .
nnow, i have a question for Joe B:
i know little about Apple's systems pre-OSX, but was Apple's stuff at
such a competitive disadvantage against M$, given that the latter was
really DOS? my understanding was that Apple's main failure was in
marketing. Windows2000 is the only operating sys from M$ i would
use, especially if i never had to fix it when it breaks, yet they
dominated the world on on lousy GUIs slapped onto a weak and ancient
system. but i imagine i do not fully understand the situation.
i am interested in hearing Joe's and other's comments.
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