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Apple and the Open Source Community
Dozix007 writes "Sitepoint reports an interesting article on the increasing interconnection between Apple's recently released Tiger, and the open source community. Tiger includes improved releases of Apple's directory services (LDAP), secure authentication (Kerberos), mail server (Postfix), web server (Apache) and many more features, nearly all based on existing open source software. Most significant may be the release of Rendezvous for Java, Linux/Unix and Windows. This is a zero-configuration tool for networking that includes network protocols, identification and configuration of devices and services such as printers and local/remote servers, and was based on open source technology."
Yeah yeah that's all great, but how about an X86 PORT ALREADY?!@#
their [Apple's] hardware is typically better and is cost competitive with all the other major PC oems
Apple does however give you less opportunity to buy less and therefore pay less. That dopes not make them more expensive but it does make their system less configurable at the initial purchase time. If you can get over that detail, everything else with their solution is wonderful IMHO
In a similiar way, my Pontiac Sunfire is typically better and cost competitive with Ferraris and Porsches. It does, howeverr, give you less oportunity to go faster than a Ferrari. This does not make it a worse car, it just makes it less competitive at the initial purchase time. If you can get over that detail, everythin else is wonderful.
I hate the Apple zealots that push the macs-are-as-cheap-as-pcs line. They arent. They are better computers, and you have to pay more for them. Live with it.