I'm really not trying to start a flame war here, but I think bringing lasso to OS X will slowly put it into retirement.
Right now, there are a lot of good lasso web developers. However, once they're on OS X, they'll probably try some "really cool application" built with open source tools like PHP or Perl, especailly when they see that some other OS X site uses it.
It's a very small step from just one PHP app on a box to "well let's just do everything in PHP".
I went through the same transformation a few years ago when we moved from WebStar on a Mac to apache on Mac OS X Server 1.0. Up until that point we were kludging together solutions in CDML for FileMaker Pro.
That OS was a nightmare(*shudder*) but it did bring me into the *nix fold and much better programming practices.
No one on this forum has yet mentioned SuSE PPC as an alternative Linux for mac hardware. I was very disappointed with LinuxPPC when I first tried it, (and mkLinux, but that was way back).
I installed the first SuSE beta and have been using their distros ever since. The best things about it are the detailed printed documentation, the professional quality of the distro, great installation tech support and the bundled software (6 CD's worth).
It's also nice using a distro that is used on PC's. I don't feel like I'm using a stepchild OS. I'm sure this new mandrake will help reduce the stigma of running linux on PPC as well.
That said, however, with OS X 10.1, I very rarely find myself booting off of my linux partition. I miss the multiple workspaces, but I really like being able to use BBEdit and Office without starting up MOL.
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I'm really not trying to start a flame war here, but I think bringing lasso to OS X will slowly put it into retirement.
Right now, there are a lot of good lasso web developers. However, once they're on OS X, they'll probably try some "really cool application" built with open source tools like PHP or Perl, especailly when they see that some other OS X site uses it.
It's a very small step from just one PHP app on a box to "well let's just do everything in PHP".
I went through the same transformation a few years ago when we moved from WebStar on a Mac to apache on Mac OS X Server 1.0. Up until that point we were kludging together solutions in CDML for FileMaker Pro.
That OS was a nightmare(*shudder*) but it did bring me into the *nix fold and much better programming practices.
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No one on this forum has yet mentioned SuSE PPC as an alternative Linux for mac hardware. I was very disappointed with LinuxPPC when I first tried it, (and mkLinux, but that was way back).
I installed the first SuSE beta and have been using their distros ever since. The best things about it are the detailed printed documentation, the professional quality of the distro, great installation tech support and the bundled software (6 CD's worth).
It's also nice using a distro that is used on PC's. I don't feel like I'm using a stepchild OS. I'm sure this new mandrake will help reduce the stigma of running linux on PPC as well.
That said, however, with OS X 10.1, I very rarely find myself booting off of my linux partition. I miss the multiple workspaces, but I really like being able to use BBEdit and Office without starting up MOL.
> I don't know what internal protocol is used in current PowerBooks, but I don't think it is ADB(my guess would be USB).
:-)
No, it's still ADB.
Gets interesting in a PPC Linux version trying to make sure the ADB keyboard/trackpad drivers and the USB keyboard/mouse drivers play nice.