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FWB Admits RealPC for Mac OS X was Vaporware
reiggin writes "In a press release on their site, FWB's new management comes clean and says that the former management had been lying about an upcoming RealPC OS X release. Apparently, not one line of code had even been written. This is a huge disappointment for anyone looking for an alternative to the now-MS owned Virtual PC (which, incidentally, Apple and Microsoft have said will not initially run on a G5)."
So the liars get to cash in their stock valued with the market expectation of this updated product. Sadly, they'll get away with it too.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Supported by the OS X crowd? How?
OS X is known and advertised as a friendly system for newbies or people who just want to do stuff easily. In other words: non-geeks. How many people will you find among the OS X crowd that:
1) Can program.
2) Understand and accept the open source philosophy.
3) Has the time and is willing to contribute code under the LGPL.
I'd say not many. The OS X crowd is already a small crowd. A small portion of a small crowd is, well... extremely small. OS X users will gain more from Wine than Wine gains from OS X users.
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What CPU and memory does it require? Can it work on G3?
Less is more !
The fact that Apple didn't buy Virtual PC is pretty good evidence why Apple will always be a second rate computer manufacturer. No business sense. I had an Apple ][+ and a Mac Plus, and fifteen years later, Apple is finally shipping computers that I would actually consider buying.
Bill gates admits Windows is a dying operating system. What can you do with windows that can't be done (better) with OS X? or Gnome for that matter? Besides hosting viruses I mean. Next windows release? Microsoft Trusted Virus Server!
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I'll get modded flamebait, but big deal. Its like buying a PS2 because you want to play Zelda the Wind Waker.
Well, to be honest, this post pretty much *is* flamebait. Are you this critical of Linux users who run WINE? Windows users with Cygwin? Just because the guy needs/wants to run one or two Windows programs, it hardly means he's made the wrong decision.
Funny, I've never need a Mac Emulator on my Windows or Linux machines to run Mac software... must not be anything worth running on that platform....
Until apple decides to open up OS X, not even slightly interested in helping thier platform grow.
Your list was fine by me until you got to Mail.app. That app has got to be the most disappointly "half baked" thing I've seen in OS X to date!
For starters, it has issues with sending file attachments. Especially in the case of recipients using AOL (but not necessarily limited to AOL), photos attached to email sent from Mail.app aren't always viewable/saveable by the receiver. Apple, so far, denies this is a bug/issue - yet I've repeatedly witnessed this problem, as have columnists for Mac-centric magazines, who I've seen collecting information on this problem for write-up in future articles.
I'd also, personally, like to see Mail.app functionality extended to the ability to read/post to Usenet groups. OS X seems to be lacking a decent Usenet newsreader program. (Especially odd omission, considering even IBM's OS/2 used to include a newsreader application, years ago, and Microsoft has it built into Outlook Express.)
No, apple releases next to nothing there, almost all that code was available to all BEFORE apple touched it.
For instance the samba work apple did that has active directory working without a hitch on OSX, do you see those contributions anywhere?