On 6/5/03 11:11 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler posted: >After a month of reading everything I could get my hands on >how X operates. I found out what we really have, UNIX with lots of >fun code under GUI eye candy. Mac OS was NEVER this complicated to >fix or repair.
How in the world did you miss out on this little tidbit? We've known since before the Public Beta shipped that OS X was going to be BSD Unix with a Mac-like interface -- basically the old NeXT operating system made a bit more like the Mac (but not enough like the Mac to make it easy for OS 9 users to migrate without a lot of headaches). And please don't even start on the "OS X is not the Mac OS" thread. That is grounds for banishment from the list. OS X is a new Mac OS, but it is absolutely a Mac OS since it only runs on Macs and is made by Apple, who makes the Mac and decides what can and cannot be called a Mac OS. It's a different Mac OS -- superior in some ways, inferior in others -- but please don't try to compare it with *the* Mac OS. The classic Mac OS was never complicated to fix or repair, but that's mostly because we used Disk First Aid, Conflict Catcher, Norton (before we knew better), DiskWarrior, and other programs to do most of the work for us. Similar tools are becoming available for OS X. Of course, I've never had to do the kind of repairs to any machine running OS X that I used to deal with regularly under the classic Mac OS. No damaged Finder preferences. No corrupt System file. No extension conflicts. OS X is far from perfect and far from finished. Still, it's good enough to have displaced the classic Mac OS for over 2 million Mac users who are switching to it each year -- and that's not counting those who get it free with their new computers. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> "As for Unix being 'inflexible,' 'expensive,' and 'complex,' we feel those are terms much better suited to the closed and proprietary world of Windows." Sun -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
