wooo wooo getting my PPD out of this thread, eh?

 

I'm pretty sure he's refering to OS X's UNIX (NeXTSTEP) based kernel.

 

MACS RULE!

PeeeCeeeeeeeeee

Windblowz...

 

Security through obscurity works for me


But I do believe some of Microsoft's practices contribute to the problems..leaving the preview pane ON by default in Outlook for example. The average computer user does not understand things are being downloaded to their computer without their knowledge. Microsoft knows this issue.. but by default preview pane is still left on

 

OS X, to me, is UNIX + excellent GUI.

I've tried various window managers/desktop environments etc on various flavors of UNIX, and they just haven't been good enough IMO for daily use. So for desktop applications I currently still use Windows.

The next computer I buy is going to be a PowerBook (I've been playing around with various Apple laptops/desktops in the Apple Store down the street from here).

 

That's kindof what I meant, OS 9 and OS X don't share much of anything, there isn't exactly an evolution inside Apple (what I think he was trying to imply). OS X is a totally different animal (which I like, BTW). It's a bunch of other software tweaked and smashed together (with style ). Jobs knows what he's doing.

 

Exactly! Their default configurations aren't very good, but like I said, they're working on them. To look at it from another angle, if you kept the preview pane off...most users wouldn't even know it existed . Stupid, stupid users

 

I'm stupid but at least I'm a stupid Mac user

 

Yup, exactly. It's really BSD + NeXTSTEP + some other things like Mach, etc. If linux could just get a common framework going, it could (probably) do better. There just isn't enough direction in the community to do somemthing like this...it's sortof a melting pot for open-source creativity.

Darwin runs on x86, and I know there are ports of the UI to x86 floating around Apple, it's just a matter of getting your hands on it.

I'm sure you guys have heard of VMWare or VirtualPC. PearPC is software that emulates PowerPC architecute, but it's fairly new and has a long way to go. Check out http://pearpc.sourceforge.net . I've got OS X running on it...slow, but it works.

 

RTFM RTFM


right working on it...as George said maybe by Longhorn the Os will be up to late model MAC Os standards oh but thats right we are debating hardware costs in here..I cant go there