I recommend a Mac as a hands down best Unix. ... And a pretty good environment overall. Other OSes are simply so much uninspiring.
The latest example is multi-touch: it is so smooth and natural on a Mac notebook. There have been attempts at multi-touch on PC notebooks with some gestures, and then the latest Wacom Bamboo Touch, which I hoped would compensate some of the Mac experience on PC. Unfortunately because of the rigidity of cursor tracking on PC and the most repulsive surfaces they choose for trackpads, the impression is simply painful and pathetic in comparison. These are small things, but they come around in various instances of use and contribute to the overall experience. ... Which can be summarized in one word: sucks or not sucks. If PCs were cars they'd be called clunkers. Macs have x5 times more user share among users than Linux. And iPhone--the best ever smartphone and PDA--is a whole upwards of 1/3 share of Linux. iPhone runs on the same Unix as Mac. http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/01/macs-internet-share-grew-5-in-sept/#more-12262 ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mark Deardorff <[email protected]> > > Sorry for butting in here but I have a question you can probably answer for > me. What is a better installation of UNIX for software development and > general scientific and math computing? OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Redhat or some > other? I am a Windows(ze) 7 user (well, as of 10/22/09) and want to learn > Linux (used to be a Unix user). What will be better for me? I am running an > AMD Phenom 64 which is a quad core box. Thanks, somuch, in advance. (Alo > what is a good IDE?) > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:38 AM, David Mitchell wrote: > > > I had a somewhat different experience with OpenSUSE 64 11.1. > > > > When the hard drive on my Gateway MT6456 notebook died a few months ago, I > > replaced it with one twice as large. I configured it as dual boot with > > Vista 32 > > on 1/2 of the drive and OpenSUSE 64 11.1 on the other 1/2. > > > > I used the the current NVIDIA support at the time via YAST and it worked > > first > > time for me after the download and install. > > > > I don't use the other three features that didn't work for you. > > -- > > David Mitchell > > > > Alex Rufon wrote: > > > Well, although I got J to work with OpenSUSE on my Lenovo T61 ... I had > > to give up on it after reinstalling the OS 3 times and switched to the 64bit > > Ubuntu 9. I should have done that in the first place instead of wasting 2 > > days. > > > > > > Here are some of the major problems which made me back away from > > OpenSUSE. > > > 1. NVIDIA driver installation - your system will refuse to boot > > > 2. NTFS write mode support - you really have to jump through hoops just > > to write to NTFS partitions > > > 3. Support for Wireless USB network - just doesn't work. > > > 4. Support for 3G Network - intermittent > > > > > > When I switch to Ubuntu this morining ... everything worked without even > > opening the console. Just relied on wizards for the configuration and no > > more problems. > > > > > > r/Alex > > > ________________________________________ > > > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of bill lam [[email protected]] > > > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 10:24 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] J64 on OpenSUSE 11.1 64bit OS (WAS: RE: [Jbeta] > > 602 ebeta available for linux32 and linux64) > > > > > > nvidia driver is troublesome enough and I gave up. Now I just vesa > > > driver. > > > > > > You are welcome to post a record of how to fix the nvidia driver (may > > > be in jchat). > > > > > > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Alex Rufon wrote: > > >> Thanks Bill. > > >> > > >> I'll just edit the jwd script. Unfortunately, I broke my system > > >> after trying to install the NVIDIA driver (which for some reason > > >> installed a new broken kernel ... why?). Now X won't start. > > >> Grrrrrrrr. > > >> > > >> I'm going to reinstall and try it again ... if I don't comment on > > >> this, everything is fine. ;) > > > > > > -- > > > regards, > > > ==================================================== > > > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
