This is a note about how 'ready' X is to be the only OS on a machine.
(the machine referenced below as my mcahine is: a G4/500/Dp
768RAM/80gig/DVD-RAM)
I am not going to go point by point thrugh your (wrong) list of "pluses"
- I will however take exception to a few points you made:
>+ This also means that apps can't block my machine. Very common
>experience in OS 9 even on G4 hardware.
I have had apps (mostly games) do this in X - the game 'takes over' the
machine with no way to switch out. If it hten crashes (happened) the only
way 'out' is to restart.
>+ Few apps crash anymore.
I have *YET* to run an app in X (even OS installed) that has not crashed
at least once.
Software update, iTunes, classic etc
the very first app I ran (10.1.?) after installing X kernel paniced the
machine - IE
>+ No Kernel panics since 10.1.3
I installed (clean) jaguar 2.5 weeks ago since then I have had 6 kernal
panics, an innumerable amount of app crashes, and just general
instability while running X. Boot back into 9 and have not a single
crash (app or OS)
-- trouble shooting any of the above problems is pointless
* The OS gives no error codes - cryptic or not. THerfore there is no way
to even begin to determine what caused the problem. Was it memory,
directory structure, bad programming, an OS issue, a peripheral issue??
what????
* the first thing I hear when I mention these problems: have yo tried to
re-install?
Hell-- if I wanted to reinstall OSes I would buy a PC and save hundreds
(or maybe thousands) of $. I currenlty support 35 macs + my own, I have
worked in envroments with as many as 125. **NEVER** have I had to
re-install an OS due to an OS failure. Sure for Disk faliures and
updates, but NEVER because the OS "just was not working". There should
be NO need to do this now - or ever. - BTW - did NOT resolve anythign,
just ate time.
>+ Emailer works fine in classic through ADSL.
No it does not -
as has been posted here previously -
when retrieving email, during the unpacking process, emailer (for me)
crashes, for others (as I understand) fails to unpack the email.
Additionally -
the UI -breaks *MANY* of the well known UI guide lines -
moving objects:
* the Dock - when hidden pops up, when not applications either during
launch or when they want attention 'bounce'. Also no way to turn this
peice of junk off.
* 'throbing' buttons - which about half the time do NOT accept
enter/return key
unnesssary repitition
* the "toolbar" - unneeded repitition of commands. Most of the toolbar
functions already exist in the primary menubar - where they belong since
they apply to all objects in the interface (such as view settings).
* Wasted interface space - the area the toolbar takes since all the
commands are already elsewhere all that spece is wasted - it is also
cuttered
Break from existing (previous) interface - WITH OUT good (exteme) reason
* moving the window widgets -placing the wigets together (ala winblows)
facilitates one of the most obvious problems th winblos inerface suffers
- 'mis-clicking'. X now has the same problem - I aim to click the window
closed, miss and resize it, or minimize it - same fo rthe other
functions. Additonally Apple put the stupid toolbar button in the
location that the previous interface had the minimize/resize buttons. So
again - mis-clicking opens/closes the toolbar whenthe inent was to
minimize or resize the window. There is/was no prevailing
need/requirement to move these objects.
Removal of existing functionality
* window shade
* apple menu (customizable)
* application menu
* tabbed windows
to name a few -
yes there are 3rd party replacements - however - ALL of these functions
have either been in the OS since the begining (Apple menu) or were
inserted in the OS after nearly EVERY USER added this functionality to
their OS once they found out about it (window shade)
>- Some apps, mostly Music apps such as certain plugins have not arrived
>yet.
after 2 years apps that some people (not me) need do not function - as
far as I can tell there is *NOTHING* to support midi - natively.
and while we are discussing hardware (midi) SCSI support in X is
miserable at best. Most existing scsi cards do not work, cause crashing,
or other instability in the OS or other apps. Those few that DO work
most do not fully support raid, and are not the faster cards.
>- You need to invest about a hundred dollars for more RAM, 30 MB seem to
>be the magic minimum, but usually 512 MB is downright wonderful. If you
>can afford 1Gb+, get it.
Ok - so now the new machine I just spent a minimum of $1200 on does not
have enough RAM torun the OS that comes installed on it?!?! this is a
good selling point.
>- You need to get batchMod, Pseudo or Skeleton in order to get decent GUI
>file handling, with user rights and groups. Or you can turn this off on
>removable drives or other drives beside your boot.
Why? - not why do I need it - but why *should* I need it?
>- I need to reboot once a week due to swap files adding up. I suspect
>this is because 352 MB is too little RAM for OS X.
and this is something extra wondeful! -
I have machines here at work, and my machine at home (before installing
X) which ran for months with out ever being turned off (or rebooted or
crashed) under OS 9.
My ASIP server a B&W G3 with 3?? meg RAM has NOT been off (or crashed in
18 months) under OS 8.6
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Chip Scheide Systems Coordinator
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
"And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute,
is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any
prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of
government will will disable us from descerning a good one."
Thomas Paine - Common Sense, Feb 14 1776
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