O how I absolutely LOVED my mac LC II. I would play dark castle and the pseudo-3D spectre untill my heart's content. The Mac OS rocked in those days compared to text based dos prompts, I had a full graphical GUI at my command.
Operation Desert Storm was Bungie's (you know, the halo people) FIRST GAME. It was mac only and so much fun to shoot at other tanks. Minotaur (another early bungie game) was a hoot playing multiplayer with other macheads across Serial ports on a Localtalk network, when windows networking was still in its embryonic stages.
The mac always had a strong shareware base, I remember downloading Ambrosia's Maelstrom from AOL and waiting FOREVER for it to finish.
Some others weret Pirates by Sid Mier, or the Origional Railroad Tycoon. SimCity was first to the Mac, and its still Will Wright's platform of choice.
Apple is and always will be a company of innovation. I am so happy I was Drinking the Apple Kool-Aid during those first years, and my were they fun.
Linux needs a Music service to be a viable desktop, its something that is getting very popular and could be the deciding facor for alot of users holding on to dual booting.
However, if raphsody goes to linux, it won't be open source, it cant be. Source hackers will try to get music for free and then all hell would break loose if a bug/exploit is found that will do that.
And -ot- on Linspire, I don't agree that they are better than MS. MS charges for a propriatery product that can't be gotten legally elsewhere. Linspire charges for Apt-get, which is not only immoral, but on against the whole idea of the debian project(i e a FREE desktop)
1. You can download a Program/Driver/Binary, install it by double clicking on an installer, and remove it by deleting it's folder or runing an uninstall program
2. Config files become unnecessary (as in they are there if you NEED them, but all options can be changed in a gui)
3. Apps contain all the libs required to run them--See OS X.apps (I think with 250GB hard drives extra copies of 250KB libs won't be so crippling
4.KDE and Gnome "start" menus are live (ie, they point to folders and can be updated by simply putting symlinks in those folders) It's an idea that should have been taken from Mac os 9's Apple Menu
And Finally
5. THE CLI IS NOT NEEDED (its time to put the past behind us)
I grew up on the (Pre OSX) Macintosh model of simplicity , and Apple moved that model perfectly to a Unix-like system. The CLI is never needed for ANYTHING, Apps are installed by double clicking or even just dragging a binary(actually a.app folder) to/Applications. Nearly All Configuration is done in a GUI. OSX is easy to use and at the same time very powerfull and intuitive.
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O how I absolutely LOVED my mac LC II. I would play dark castle and the pseudo-3D spectre untill my heart's content. The Mac OS rocked in those days compared to text based dos prompts, I had a full graphical GUI at my command.
Operation Desert Storm was Bungie's (you know, the halo people) FIRST GAME. It was mac only and so much fun to shoot at other tanks. Minotaur (another early bungie game) was a hoot playing multiplayer with other macheads across Serial ports on a Localtalk network, when windows networking was still in its embryonic stages.
The mac always had a strong shareware base, I remember downloading Ambrosia's Maelstrom from AOL and waiting FOREVER for it to finish.
Some others weret Pirates by Sid Mier, or the Origional Railroad Tycoon. SimCity was first to the Mac, and its still Will Wright's platform of choice.
Apple is and always will be a company of innovation. I am so happy I was Drinking the Apple Kool-Aid during those first years, and my were they fun.
Well, I for one, Welcome our new Master of Orion
Linux needs a Music service to be a viable desktop, its something that is getting very popular and could be the deciding facor for alot of users holding on to dual booting.
However, if raphsody goes to linux, it won't be open source, it cant be. Source hackers will try to get music for free and then all hell would break loose if a bug/exploit is found that will do that.
And -ot- on Linspire, I don't agree that they are better than MS. MS charges for a propriatery product that can't be gotten legally elsewhere. Linspire charges for Apt-get, which is not only immoral, but on against the whole idea of the debian project(i e a FREE desktop)
1. You can download a Program/Driver/Binary, install it by double clicking on an installer, and remove it by deleting it's folder or runing an uninstall program
.apps (I think with 250GB hard drives extra copies of 250KB libs won't be so crippling
.app folder) to /Applications. Nearly All Configuration is done in a GUI. OSX is easy to use and at the same time very powerfull and intuitive.
2. Config files become unnecessary (as in they are there if you NEED them, but all options can be changed in a gui)
3. Apps contain all the libs required to run them--See OS X
4.KDE and Gnome "start" menus are live (ie, they point to folders and can be updated by simply putting symlinks in those folders) It's an idea that should have been taken from Mac os 9's Apple Menu
And Finally
5. THE CLI IS NOT NEEDED (its time to put the past behind us)
I grew up on the (Pre OSX) Macintosh model of simplicity , and Apple moved that model perfectly to a Unix-like system. The CLI is never needed for ANYTHING, Apps are installed by double clicking or even just dragging a binary(actually a
Hopefully Linux will be this easy one day.