Subject: ox X and linux
From: David P. Riedel (driedel@home.com)
Date: Tue Nov 16 1999 - 17:03:59 MST
I have used MacOS X Server since March when it became generally
available. I have been using linux on my mac since September. I
believe that linux is far superior to macos x. the kde is much easier
to use than the workspace manager for everyday tasks. the main
difference tho is the existence of an active developer community where
infoormation about linux is readily available. you can go into any
large bookstore and find dozens of current books on linux -- you can't
find any on macos x. there are several active newsgroups for linux
which can be quite helpful. while macos x is based on bsd, it is not a
standard configuration -- there are pieces from free bsd and netbsd.
the directory hierarchy has some differences. in my experience i have
found it to be very difficult to get a tarball source distribution to
build on macos x whereas on linux i have had very few problems.
In addition, apple has based their macos x system software on objecitive
c which, whatever its merits, nobody else has any use for. the c++ and
java compilers supplied with macosx are old and it's not easy to get
updated compilers to build on the platform. i think that,
unfortunately, macos x is going to be a niche product that is not widely
used by developers -- i know that there are some objective-c folks out
there how are totally dedicated to the platform but they are certainly
in the minority in the unix/linux community.
personlly, i think apple would be much better off building on top of
mklinux. now if only sheepshaver would show up we'd have everything we
need.
dave riedel
> I have been using linux for several months now and am thankful to have
> switched from Winbloz to Linux in a workstation environment. I have been
> also contemplated a Mac architecture due to many recommendations from
> developers as well as other obvious reasons.
> I wanted to know if anyone with OS X and a Mac compatible Linux experience
> has any info on the pros cons of OS X and the fact that it is BSD
> based. Since I have Linux and BSD experience I would like to know more
> about OS X and what benefits would Linux have over it. I have not found
> all the applications that I use ported to Linux although there are only a
> few. Hence, I use vmware for the occasional use of Winbloz.
>
> Thanks,
>
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