At 22:03 +0100 10/9/08, Simon Royal wrote: >I know this is a long way off, but what do we think Apple will do after >they reach Mac OSX 10.9 'Lion'. > >Will they go for 10.10?
There's nothing wrong with that. Other 'NIX apps do it. But the X in OS-X does NOT stand for the base of decimal arithmetic, 10. I'm convinced that it is there because Steve came home from NexT, Inc. and the folks who came with him really wanted to preserve the concept of GUI applications existing in a UNIX background. OS 10 would have been an improvement of OS 9: Instead. . . OS neXt was a whole new system that required dropping a whole lot of the good that came with the "classic" MacOS. In my case it's the loss of MPW which was really a way to make classic Mac behave a bit like UNIX. It's not that I disapprove. Right now I'm enjoying ubuntu which works a whole lot like OS neXt but there are no secrets to worry about and if you find a bug you can fix it yourself and contribute the fix to the community. It's also cheaper at a total cost of $0.0. If you're thinking about upgrading from your G4 to a newer Intel-based Apple box you owe it to yourself to check out ubuntu. Nautilus replaces Finder and the gnome toolkit is a whole like the Mac-classic toolbox. Reasonable people can well disagree, but checking it out costs nothing but access to a friend who has an Intel box you can play with. And yes I'm still showing 10 x cost on my AAPL. Perhaps that's OS 10.X.1 -- --> If it's not on fire it's a software problem. <-- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
