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Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux
M.Broil writes "This is a nice and fairly complete 'first look' at Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), but author Chris Gulker, who I happen to know was an Apple PR guy years ago, spends a lot of time comparing the Mac 'Panther' release to Linux, which he seems to use most of the time these days. He obviously likes a lot about Panther, but he doesn't think many Linux users will switch to it, and that a lot of 'Classic' Mac OS users may not want to move to it, either."
.. and maybe also easy to use, yet a powerful and flexible Unix shell?
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Hell, many GUI locks on XP can be averted if you have terminal services running and want to login and poke around.
Actually, the usual case is that the "Windows Security" dialog (with task manager, etc) is tied to the ctrl-alt-del keyboard interrupt, and is available about 99% of the time, even when you've hosed the GUI.
While this reeks "video driver" to me as a windows/linux user, APPLE MAKES THE DAMN HARDWARE... one would think they could avert things like this easily since they have very fine control over everything.
Apple and Linux are really lagging behind in the recovery area... when X gets hosed, it usually takes the console keyboard with it. Now Linux has support for that "Magic sysrq key" thingee if you compile it into the kernel to do things like reboot, but it would be great if you could do that, and it would spawn another virtual console running top or something.
Not everyone has a second computer they can ssh in from, let alone the fact that you're running sshd or not.
What about this one?
"For $129, you would hope to get a well-debugged product."
How much is Windows again?