Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:13:41 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Steve Kudlak <chromexa@ovis.net>, David Hunt <dh@huntbros.net>, "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kate Sullivan <Lslbsc2@AOL.COM> Subject: Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212261204370.3051-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <15883.6486.551402.144752@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> Julian Elischer writes:
> > That's with an unaltered macosX 10.1.5.
> > from the user perspective it looks a lot like FreeBSD 3.{something}
>
>
> I think he means text-only syscons like vtys. MacOSX does not have
> them. Nobody has ever been able to tell me how to make a serial
> console work on my OS-X crashbox either.
I doubt that is what he means..
>
> > The new one is basically like FreeBSD 4.4.
>
> All versions of OSX feel more like Nextstep than any version of
> FreeBSD.
But they feel more like FBSD than they feel like DOS :-)
> > Stick with MacOS-X it's going to run better onthis hardware than
> > anything else.
> >
>
> However, if you're talking about ease of operation, then I agree with
> you 100%. Suspend always works, the my ti powerbook is up and on the
> network before I have the case open. My wife bought me a 2 button+
> scrollwheel mouse for Christmas. The mouse worked (scrollwheel
> included) with no configuration at all, just as soon as I plugged it
> in. It even worked in XDarwin. I was amazed. Iphoto rocks. Its
> nice being able to run M$ Office natively, etc.
I mean that suspend works, and device support is correct and functional,
not to mention that there are actual useful Apps.
:-)
>
> Fink (based on debian's dselect/apt-get) is great. As much as I hate
> to say it, I think its better than our ports/pkgs system. I love how
> it upgrades packages + dependancies seemlessly when you upgrade one
> component.
>
> Drew
>
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