On Sun Mar 16, 2003 at 02:28:27PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > >It would be quite nice if the OS X build of 1.3 comes with Enigmail, but I > >haven't checked it out yet. It would be really cool to interchange mail > >with my laptop and desktop machine as well as the bookmarks I currently do. > > > >Lack of GPG support in the OS X build is the only thing stopping me from > >moving to Mozilla for my mail. Ah well... mutt has worked pretty good till > >now... =) > > > > I know what you mean. we recently got a copy of OS X at work for the > dual G4's we've got in the graphics department. to be honest it left me > very unimpressed. I was really expecting more of a Unix feel and > function then what it has. Unless I'm missing something it's very > un-Unix like.
Just on the desktop.. it's very Mac-ish. Underneath tho... very BSD. Go poke around in the terminal if you get a chance. =) And you can run X on it as well, although I doubt your graphics folk would be very interested in that (of course, you could also fire up gimp under X). Then there's fink... lots of OSS stuff that runs under X and on the commandline.. uses apt-get. At the first glance, you're right, it's not very NIX-ish, but once you get in with it... it hits you. =) I couldn't stand OS X either when I first got a Mac to do the PPC updates. It's since grown on me... it's my second favourite OS now. The only thing I really dislike about it is the lack of themeability... Aqua is Aqua is Aqua. Gets pretty boring after a while. > Then again...the look and feel of Mandrake 9.1 is very MAC like and I'm > loving it's looks cause underneath still beats to true heart of the > Linux Penguin with all it's great strength. Now it's even prettier! :) I don't think 9.1 looks very Macish... I guess it depends on what desktop you're using... I'm using GNOME of fluxbox; neither of which is very Macish. Maybe KDE looks more like it with all the bubbles and stuff... =) I think 9.1 is fairly unique in it's own right, which is one of the drawing aspects to me. I like OS X because it's really easy to do certain things (ie. I do all my multimedia stuff on there like making movies), but I much prefer doing my "power" work on Linux. I think if I had to do what I do on my Mandrake box in OS X, I'd shoot myself. =) A case of the right tool (or OS) for the right job. Heck, I even have a dual-boot Windows box just so I can play EverQuest (although this may change since EQ for the Mac is coming out soon). -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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