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Posted by michael on from the pick-one-and-stick-with-it-already dept.

serendigital writes "Unix guru Simon Cozens wrote about his "conversion" story in the UK Unix User Group Newsletter. He touts: OroborosX and XDarwin. This gives you a rootless X server and Aqua-like window manager. He also seems to like the libraries: the NeXT approach of separating libraries off into their own subdirectories and separating out library versions makes for a much tidier filesystem arrangement than simply bundling everything in /usr/lib. One of the more controversial "differences" in OSX." And on the other side of the switch, there's Wil Wheaton does Mandrake.

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  1. this is all well and good by Archfeld · · Score: 1, Troll

    I like many of the features but I've only got x86 hardware or an alpha. When does apple get wise and port to other hardware and kick M$ where it hurts...

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  2. Re:Just switch to Apple, man. by alienw · · Score: 0, Troll

    Legacy CPUs? Is that what Macs use? What's the fastest G4 speed - 800 MHz? The x86 architecture is in the double-gigahertz range now. I don't think that's what you call "legacy."

    Also, OS X about as close to UNIX as Cygwin running on top of Win98 is. They still have a bunch of NeXT stuff under the hood (Darwin) and do most things the NeXT way (display postscript, etc). The only thing that makes it "unix" is the fact that it runs some unix commands. But you can make DOS run unix commands, so that's not really a good argument.

    I would be very skeptical of using something like Darwin/OS X on an industrial-class machine. It's worse than Win2K in terms of overhead (can you even boot without a GUI?), and runs a weird microkernel.

    Yes, it makes a good desktop. If you hate computers and love the Apple way of doing things, this is the OS for you. If you switch from Linux to OS X, you probably shouldn't have been using Linux in the first place.

  3. Apple's arguments aren't exactly fair... by dfj225 · · Score: 0, Troll

    After watching a stream of Apple's switch adds today during a football game broadcast, I've come to a conclusion about the majority of Apple's adds: they compare older versions of Windows to Apple's latest OS X. Former Windows users complain about not being able to plug digital cameras into their computers and having them work, or not having the capability to edit digital videos on their computers. These may be true, but not if they were to come from using Windows XP on a new PC. Microsoft could have adds that say: "Switch to windows cause apple's OS is unstable and doesn't even have the benefits of a command line or advanced features" Obviously this would be in refernce to the older versions of Mac OS. Most of the arguments presented in the switch commercials wouldn't stand up against a new PC running windows XP.

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  4. Dear Taco, by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 1, Troll
    Just had a fantastic brainwave. Why don't we have a story title "More windows users switch to Linux" posted in the Apple section every fortnight? Not only would it be true (I can provide you with countless individuals myself if you want), but it would even up the balance, and give all the new Linux converts a chance to talk about how they've "switched" and are "never going back" to the horrible, buggy XP, as well as annoying Mac users :)

    What do you think?