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An Answer To "What is Mac OS X?"
XCube writes: "'What is Mac OS X?' is a fascinating article over at KernelThread.com. According to Amit Singh it's a hacker-over-friendly answer to that question and a low-level taste of Apple's OS. The extensive article covers many details on Mac OS X: history, Mac firmware & boot loader, system architecture, kernel, startup, file systems, app environments, programming facilities, available software, and more. A great read if you are interested in Mac OS X, though some stuff is too technical methinks. On second thought, this may be a better read if you're *not* interested in Mac OS X! The author says he wrote it to introduce Mac OS X to the Linux User's Group at his work."
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Office desktop: RedHat 9 on AMD
Home (me+wife+kids): Mac OS X Panther
Something I use for one-off client software and site testing: Win2K on Dell P3
I have used a Mac since the SE30 (circa '88). The office is 100% Windoze, including assets in India (where they are about as Windoze addicted as one can be) and my office Linux desktop and laptops work out OK with the printing and shares with some fiddling. The server room is probably 75% Linux however, much of which I manage, and I went to Linux on the desktop a year ago with no regrets when my WinDell started locking up, except that I would have prefered a Mac.
I would use OS X at work if I could get the PHBs to spring for the hardware. But they don't really care about a lot that IMHO is important to enjoying work; I already bought my own Aeron task chair (to save my aching back) and my own LCD monitor (to save my aching eyes and immune system) and already built my own workstation (because I already have one flaky Dell) so maybe I should buy my own Mac for work.
Makes me feel like a damned visitor here sometimes! Screw it; I'll get a new iMac for home and bring my G4 to work. Some things you just cannot compromise on.
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