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BSD User's Review Of OS X
Lally Singh writes: "Getting bored with the latest distribution? Or getting tired of searching for drivers for your 8 bit soundblaster (in)compatible? Then listen to one BSD user's opinion of Mac OS X. And stop complaining about the hardware. Give a Powermac or one of the portables a chance before knocking on it."
Our friend's browser count for Mac OS X is a little low. He includes:
Internet Explorer, OmniWeb, and Mozilla.
He neglects: Opera and iCab and Lynx. I'm posting this from iCab, which
I love (though it can't seem to handle hotmail and crashes on a few things, it's overall snappier than IE. I can almost quit and restart it
in the time it takes IE to come up with a new window after switching
back from another app). I don't know how any Unix geek could possibly
leave lynx out of the pantheon of browsers.
As for Mozilla: uch. I can't even get beyond the splash screen on my
machine. I almost think it doesn't count.
Libertarianism is rich wolves and poor sheep playing gambler's ruin for dinner.
I am that guy...
At the time Apple did not have the Developer Tools available for download. I actually waited for a few weeks and finally resorted to Darwin, which is the same tools anyway, minus the Project Builder apps.
But after 10.0.4 came out they also made many of the tools available to ADC members. Regardless, the tools I got from Darwin already worked.
Brennan Stehling - http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/
Despite the fact that the GNU project has been around for every bit as long as the Mac (since 1984), they still don't have an OS that my mom could install and use.
Have you tried SuSE Linux 7.2, or Mandrake 8.0? Both install very nicely. SuSE will auto-detect your hardware for you, setting up X and so on. If you can install a Microsoft OS, you can install SuSE Linux 7.2. And if you can use a Microsoft OS, then you can use SuSE Linux 7.2 as well.
Check it out, if you get the chance.
The iBook's LCD only supports 1024x768, but the card in it supports much higher... which you see if you hook it up to another monitor.
Do you own one? Sorry, but anyone here can go to Apple's support boards, Macintouch.com, MacNN, whatever, and confirm that:
The new iBook does NOT support dual displays (only mirroring)
You CANNOT drive an external display at any resolution greater than 1024 x 768.
Both of these apply to both MacOS 9 and X. If you've somehow hacked it to make it work, back it up with a URL or something. Believe me, there are lots of people pissed because it doesn't work, and we're all eagerly awaiting your reply telling us how to do it.
P.S., I suspect you will not reply, because you'll do the research and find that you're wrong. There's a guy further up in this thread, that claimed the same thing, then never came back to back it up. (I really do wish you weren't wrong - these issues are the only thing stopping me from buying this machine).
Apple has a rather bad habit of introducing a very competitive machine and then not bothering to update it until it's quite uncompetitive. The best time to buy is right after introduction. There are rumors about new TiPBs in the late September time frame.
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I just sold my DUAL G4 533 because it was the worst OS I have ever used in reguards to:
Happly I got what I paid for it when I sold it, but I am very very unhappy with OS X. Its a great OS as far as something that has no specialized use, but A Mac is SPECIAL!
Apple really messed up going with a mix of BSD and NEXT!
Its got the sense of UNIX in some of the structure but then NEXT gets its foot in the door and it makes no sense. Its not logical in its structure other then the NetInfo database, but even that isnt that great. Apple is great in some respects and bad in others. I have thought of them as a cheapo linux server (old 7200) for a little kid. Other then that apple is not gonna do so well untill they get their shit together.
"Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness." - M