From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 1 12:15:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from uce55.uchaswv.edu (uce55.uchaswv.edu [12.4.161.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666E337B402 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:15:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([172.16.32.103]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA14268 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:19:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200203012019.PAA14268@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: OS-X question(WAS:GUI question.) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:15:52 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <200203010532.AAA17582@alpha.vaxxine.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I try to keep my life as Microsoft-free as possible. On servers, > I prefer to use FreeBSD (on x86 hardware), OpenBSD (on most > everything else, other than SPARC64), and Solaris (on SPARC64). For > firewalls, I much prefer OpenBSD on pretty much whatever. On > desktops, I prefer Macintosh. for years i swore i'd never own a Mac, but since Os-X came out, i've been wanting a mac more and more. can anyone tell me how OS-X is from a unix type mindset? i know that somethings will be different, such as directories and naming conventions. thats to be expected. but how well is it as a unix desktop? although i havn't used it, i think it would be great. unified widgets, great look and feel, in most cases commerical quality apps, as well as OSS apps. any downsides that i should be aware of before buying one? and would you recommend a low end powermac or or high end imac? i'm not into graphic's related work, i imagine that since i currently use freebsd as my desktop that i won't be doing anything resource intensive except compiling various OSS pieces of software. also, whats your take on the higher pricing of the hardware? i know it costs more, but i've been told that it last longer. as in a 5 year old mac is still usable with current apps, where as a 5 year old PC is pretty slow using the same current apps. does anyone know if this is true? and lastly, can you recommend OS-X to a unix desktop user? opensource licensing issues aside. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message