Shoshannah Forbes
Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:29:44 -0700
Begin forwarded message: From: Shoshannah Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16:50:40 GMT+02:00 10 אוקטובר 2005 To: Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Linux-IL <linux-il@linux.org.il> Subject: Re: ot: OS X Hi. Writing this from OSX :-)
i just passed in a store and saw a mac with OS X it looks pretty, and i remembered i saw that a lot of linux programs can be ported to work on OS X.
Yes. Many are available either as "Native" OSX GUI apps, or via projects like "fink" ( http://fink.sourceforge.net/ ) (an apt based project) and Darwin ports ( http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ ) . There are also applications like "Adium" ( http://www.adiumx.com/ ) which are OSS written only for OSX but use linux libraries (Adium uses gaim stuff in it). An experimental project is working on getting KDE working on OSX without X11:
http://kde.opendarwin.org/ (not very active lately, unfortunately )
as i do not like windows, but i need it for various resons (ms office compatibility, sites that work only on explorer etc...)
Internet Explorer for OSX is NOT 100% compatible to winIE. It uses a difference rendering engine (tasman instead of trident), and does not support Hebrew. Microsoft stopped developing it, so this will not change.
MS Office for Mac is not bad, but it's Hebrew support is rather iffy: http://www.xslf.com/archives/000064.html
i was wondering: is OS X the solutione.g. : can it function as both linux (including all linux apps, shells, daemons etc ...)and windows ( internet explorer, ms office etc ...) how is your impression ?
If you want to use OSX to get over problems like Israeli sites wanting IE only, and you need high Hebrew support in MS Office, OSX is NOT the solution, as you can probably see from what I wrote about.
On the other hand, if you want a system that gives you many OSS options together with many proprietary options (Photoshop, proprietary games, final cut pro etc), has less security problems than MS Windows and is very polished (still more polished than Linux or Windows, and has many small niceties) OSX is the way to go.
btw: can OS-X run on non mac hardware ?
Well, the new MacIntel version is supposed to work, but it is only an Apple seed (sent to subscribed developers) at the moment, and not all applications will work (that is why it is seeding- so the dev's can update their apps)
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