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O'Reilly Publishing Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

Posted by pudge on from the sweet-unix-luvin dept.

vi-rocks writes "A new O'Reilly book is due for release in October: Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Brian Jepson and Ernest Rothman are the authors. Details about the book (including a sample chapter) are available on the website. Note the sash on the top right hand of the cover reads 'Switching to Mac OS X.' They say you can't judge a book by it cover -- HUMBUG!, I've already pre-ordered :)" The sample chapter information on NetInfo has helped me already.

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  1. Re:This is slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Money! That's all I ever hear from you idiots when anyone talks about any operating system! How much money does it cost? Oh, sure, Linux is completely unusable to the average human being, but that just gives us a reason to mock them for being idiots!

    I have to wonder if, back when cars were first being introduced as a consumer product, mechanics sat around and did this.

    "Starters? REAL motorists know how to crank the engine BY HAND!"
    "If you don't know how to mix your oil and gasoline yourself, get off the road."
    "You don't NEED an automatic transmission. Why are we wasting time talking about this instead of advancing clutch technology."

    Salon is a wonderful gathering place for all kinds of tech news. Keep up the good work.

  2. Re: Yay! by realgone · · Score: 3, Funny
    And under the Apple section no less! The audacity!

    Those lil' checkboxes are there in the preferences for a reason. Feel free to use 'em.

  3. Re:META: Please flag PDF-links by RobotWisdom · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Obviously you haven't been on Slashdot that long."

    Without even hovering or peeking you should have noticed that my User# is 25776 while yours is 155958.

  4. Don't they really need a book the other way around by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mac OS X has those old OS 9 people running scared.
    They know that the evil command line and a swag of unixy software is under the hood - but they don't want to mess with it. That's why they want lovely gui installs for stuff like PHP and MySQL ;)

    But do you teach them emacs or vi?

    People who know unix can quickly come to grips with OS X. Its only a matter of figuring out what wierd directory stuff goes into. What they will get confused with is Microsoft Office X.
    Also seeing a gui environment running all the time will surprise them.

    I just wish that Terminal.app wouldn't unexpectedly quit on me (with the old error message style that will allow os 9 users to fell at home).