Most of the questions seem to have been answered in the many other posts, but I thought I would chime in with my $.02 as I seem to be one of the longer running linux users, and possibly one of the shorter OS X users. Frame of reference, I started in linux roughly six years ago and have gone from slackware to red hat mainly, testing other distros along the way, and I have owned my ti power book for just over a year.
Couple points: 1) Is your office primarily a business person's office or a tech office, aka are you buying lap tops for project managers, etc. who are going to need main stay applications, or are you dealing with developers who are used to being able to use home grown products?? Mac OS X by itself likely fulfills the first need (aka availability of M$ Office, Photoshop, etc.) better than linux, while allowing for the second case, with the Fink project. 2) Is the hardware a consideration here? I knew when I finally got a lap top that it was going to run a unix system regardless--linux or Mac OS X--but when I saw the screen on the new powerbooks my search ended and abruptly I might add. Either the powerbook or the ibook seems superior in numerous ways to anything I have seen offered from Dell, Toshiba, Sony, etc. at least at comparable price from a hardware standpoint. Just soem quick thoughts...... Curtis Vaughan wrote: > In addendum: > > I'm not really interested in server solutions - yet. > > I wanted to add the following, however, to my original post. > > One of the main features I would probably have to use if I were to > advise OS X on future laptops would be a KDE desktop. Judging by posts > I'm assuming this is possible. > However, I am wondering also, if I were to use KDE with OS X, is Aqua > still running simultaneously? Or is it like on Linux, you boot into 1 > Xserver environment? > Another question is about OS 9. Is it necessary to keep OS 9 on an OS X > system? Why and why not? Any advantages to removing it? > > Questions, questions, questions.... > > Curtis > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Sun Jul 21, 2002 10:46:47 US/Pacific >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: OS X question >> >> >> One little thing to remember is that one copy of OS X Server has >> unlimited licenses vs what you get with Windows. Still not as cheap as >> Linux, but worth taking into consideration. >> wc >> >> On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 11:56 AM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: >> >> I would like to know what other users out there think about OS X. >> >> Reason. >> The thing is, the company I work at has, like most, long been Windows >> based. It's about a year ago now that my vice president asked me >> about going Linux. I was all for it and began the arduous journey of >> understanding Linux, primarily Debian. >> The main problem, however, has been the fact that most every employee >> in our company needs to have a laptop. You can't really buy new >> laptops with a Linux system installed, and I don't trust used >> computers. So, since the beginning of the year I have already had to >> purchase 4 laptops, each with Windows installed. >> Low and behold, OS X is out and Unix based. So, I made the argument >> that this time we should buy an OS X based laptop instead of Windows, >> if our goal is to moved towards Linux. The VP agreed. >> >> Problems. >> OS X is not really that close to what I've been trying to steer our >> organization toward - i.e., Debian Linux. However, I have just begun >> looking into what I'll call the Fink project, which could bring me >> back to something more familiar. >> OS X is not a free OS like Linux. Your still stuck in the pay for >> licenses situation. Something we were trying to get away from. >> >> So, I have a few more days to play around with OS X before I have my >> last opportunity to return the computer for a refund and I am >> wondering what other people more used to OS X would advise. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Curtis >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >> Welcome to geek heaven. >> http://thinkgeek.com/sf >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >> >> >> >> >> __________________________________________________________________ >> Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. >> Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! >> http://shopnow.netscape.com/ >> >> Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at >> http://webmail.netscape.com/ >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
