On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 10:20  PM, Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
> LINUX, THE SAGA!

Nice story!  It's too bad Linux did not work out.  I have been using
Linux as my main OS since about 1998 or so, the Red Hat 6.0 days.  At
the time, I had Unix experience on SunOS and Solaris, so moving to yet
another Unix was not that difficult for me.  But I still ran into
problems like you mention below.  Things are getting better all the
time, but it still has a was to go.

Then, 2 months ago, I bought an iMac with OS X.  Wow, finally!  Apple
accomplished what Linux has been trying to do: put a nice GUI on top of
Unix.  No more recompiling the kernel to get my USB mouse to work, NFS
to work, etc.  Now you can run all your favorite MS, Intuit, and Adobe
products while getting a zsh shell window to a *real* BSD Unixen.  All
in all, I am very impressed.  Apple needs to keep pace with Intel chips
a bit better, but that's not really Apple's fault (damn Motorola).  And
the GUI can seem a bit slow at times.  It suffers from the same thing
XP does: make things look cool at the expense of CPU.  I'm all for
making things look cool, but when it begins to interfere with my usage,
then it has gone too far.  There are a few small cases where this is
true.  Also, there are still some application areas where OS X needs
help, and PCB software is one of them.  I'm sure more and more
engineering programs will get ported to OS X as more geeks start using
it.  I hope the guys from Eagle are listening: Eagle on OS X would rock!

Linux is still my favorite for no-GUI servers, but I'm an OS X convert
for Unix on the desktop.

-Dave

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