On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:30:31PM -0500, Dima Shcherban wrote: > > Dear folks, > > A few days ago, I got a chance to play with a laptop with new MAC OS. It > was very brief chance, so I wonder if anybody has a longer experience. >
I've had a Tibook since January. > I don't really use GUI, but my wife likes it a lot. In addition, this is a > time for me to buy a new family laptop and I was thinking if this new MAC > will make a reasonable compromise. > > Questions: > > 1. Are there any real differences bertween that MAC version of UNIX with > conventional UNIXes, which we are accustom to? It's one of the BSDs, with a mach microkernel. > 2. Is underlying UNIX usable by itself, or not? Yup. It comes out of the box with things like perl, top, ssh. You can get a shell on the box and treat it jut like any other unix. > 3. Is it possible to build any third party software of this UNIX. How > about X? There's a project to port apps to OSX called fink. see http://fink.sourceforge.net/ They're using the debian packge tooks for the project....It's quite nice. X11 isn't included, but it can be installed. There are window manager hacks available to let you use the native window manager for X11 apps. > > 4. Is it setup simillar to NeXT, previous attempt of "Macintosh UNIX"? No idea. Never used NeXT. Check out http://www.apple.com/macosx/ for details. For me it's the best of both worlds. I get a unix-based OS with a full suite of office/productivity apps all in one box. -jeff --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
