I concur with Bill and Mr. Jones on OSX being trouble free. Having said that I realize that some people may have trouble.
I have been using OSX quite a lot since 10.1. I have it install on a 7300, G3 350 512k/ATA 100 (XpostFacto), 7500, G3 300 1mb/SCSI HD (XpostFacto), G4 450mp, beige G3 300 1mb and a G3 266 512k. On the 7300 I had a 9.1 partition that went real bad (I couldn't access in any manner with any tools until I cleaned it off) but OSX on another partition was unaffected and is still in use. I have had to chase down a couple of bad fonts from Classic that gave a couple of OSX apps a problem. The 7300 is what I work on every day while others use the other Macs. Some folks hardly ever leave OSX. I can't use OSX all the time because I am a designer and have apps that there are not X versions. I also have to have better scanner and printer support. There isn't a WYSIWYG system wide font viewer among many other shortfalls. I seldom have stability issues on OS 9x but the OSX multitasking is very nice. I never try to run more that two graphics apps in 9x and usually use one at a time. On the old G3s X is a little slow but not too bad, and 10.2 might help that. The lack of printer and scanner support will probably keep more designers out of OSX that the lack of a native Quark. Seemingly small problems like the WYSIWYG font issue is extremely important to designers with thousands of fonts. I have seen two kernel panics but they were months ago and I don't recall why they happened. If anyone is having a lot of OSX stability problems you should test you fonts in OSX and in Classic 9x. Even when Classic is not running the fonts can cause trouble. I learned this after weeks of problems with two OSX apps. Roger Harris ********************************************************** Bill Jurgenson wrote: >On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 11:05 AM, James S Jones wrote: > > > >> >> > >b > > > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
