Hi Christian,
Thanks for your highly cogent and possitive response. I cannot answer
all your needs here, I can say though in a bbroad sense that you have
control over your own security on the Mac much the same way you do in
linux. In fact, you can live in the terminal which works reasonalby
well with voiceover if you like. As for using the web and doing
email, it is not a perfect solution, bbut here too, you can live in
the terminal if you wish. Others can speak to development
environments but I suspect you can do lots of that in terminal as
well. I have built some packages in this way but they were scripted
in advance.
On Nov 12, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Christian Gerhardt wrote:
Hi David,
On Mo, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:53:04 -0500, David Poehlman wrote:
Are you adventurous? Do you like to try new things? Are you not
afraid to learn new ways of doing the same old thing?
Of course I am almost alwys adventurous :-)
I left the windows world 6 years ago and learned using Linux. I would
say
it was adventurous ;-)
I like trying new things under some circumstances.
First of all I cannot afford to buy something that's just not really
usable
and _note_ I don't say leopard is not usable. I don't know if it is as
usable as I need or want it to be. That's why I am asking.
Wanting to be familiar with different systems is one of the reasons
for my
curriousity concerning mac os. One big pro for mac os at the current
stage
is, that the screenreader is build right into the system and I don't
have
to pay a lot of money for this specific kind of software. The operating
system itself isn't too expensive either.
What are your needs?
Well, I want to browse the web, develop some software under mac os using
apple script, python, you name it. I want to be able sending s/mime e-
mails
and I am interested in a secure computing environment. Security is a
process and no single operating system is secure at all, but I don't
like
companies pretending their systems to be secure and acting at best late
after the announcement of a security whole/issue. That's by the way
one of
the reasons I am not using windows any more, but this is not a windows
mailinglist and I asked for info about the mac os ;-)
In essence I want quick patches closing security issues.
The biggest need to be satisfied is my curiousity, but I have to work
hard
for my money as everybody has to I guess and I want to spend it
efficiently.
Thank you for your answer so far.
Regards,
Christian
