Mac OS Back-Compatibility [Was Re: [LINK] Microsoft]

[Rick Welykochy]

--- Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:

> On 2006 Aug 06, at 2:15 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:
> > At 13:29 +1000 6/8/06, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> >> I wonder how Apple went when they switched from OS9 to OSX.  Can  
> >> any of the Apple aficionados shed some light on the backward  
> >> compat of these two.
[SNIP]
> I run Mac systems for weeks (and usually only have to reboot for  
> security patches) without problems - including a laptop that I put to  
> sleep and wake up at least three times a day, I think OSX is rock  
> solid.  Try doing that with anything else, even VxWorks.
[SNIP]
> have to agree with you there.  I could reliably crash the finder and  
> gave up using spotlight.  I tried rebuilding the database - took 20  
> hours - still isn't great.  Still it's a unix system and has locate  
> and find under the hood;-)

I'm running a lappy and a mini using latest OSX (10.4) and have much praise
for the system. I completely eschew OS9 and don't even install the 
disk driver compatibility mode. Also agree that Spotlight is complete
garbage. I've disabled in /etc/whetever-the-file-was-called -- would love
to remove the Spotlight crap on the menu bar! :(

Having *nix underneath the pretty candy GUI is the real forte of the system.
I can using all GNU tools and other FOSS, and I can script anything I need to
automate. I can also pretty well run anything that I'd run on a Linux system.
So, happy chappy here :)

Side rant: currently overseas and using Win/XP (don't ask). And believe me,
when you haven't used Winblows for a long time, it really hurts to have
to adjust to it once again. Nothing is intuitive, nothing works well, and 
I can barely get some of my jobs done in the "shell" (cough cough). The 
amazing thing is trying convince my rellies that they really would enjoy 
a better computing "experience" if they dumped Windoze and tried Linux or
Mac OSX. They complain about the "fear of the unknown" and "difficulty in
changing". Sound familiar? Sound like a great way to maintain a monopoly
on the desktop? Even when presented with the possibility of banking and
other ID types of theft, Windows users seem naught to care. Astonishing!

cheers
rickw



		
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