I've been playing with an old G3 at home for a while now and have gotten pretty familiar with OSX. I won't be doing a lot of development on the machine. Basically just running an IDE. I love SlickEdit, but alas, they don't run on OSX. A friend has pointed me a number of others that I will be test driving, some open source, some commercial. The compilations will take place on other machines. Other than that, all I'll need to add is a 3270 emulator. Yes, some of the *NIX development I do is Unix System Services under z/OS(Yuck).
This was an informed decision, I think. Of course, the best laid plans..... Ken On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:35, Smith, Brett wrote: > You should feel dirty. > Mac OSX is based on Darwin. a derivitive of 4.4BSD > http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ > the free version of Darwin is GNU-darwin. > http://www.gnu-darwin.org > > <sarcasm>All are evil bsd stuff.</sarcasm> > > Use Yellow Dog....Feel Clean > http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ > > In my experience Mac OS X requires as much work as Linux to setup for > development. > If you already know Linux it is not that hard a transition. > Fink is the key. > http://fink.sourceforge.net/ > > Use as many GNU Open Source Apps as you can. > > I hope this helps > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:10 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession) > > > Don't feel dirty Ken, I believe MAC OS X is Linux or Unix based. > > Now if that was you half naked on stage at 'The Lady' last night you > should be ashamed of yourself! > > :-0 > > Shawn > > Ken Wrote: > > I've been using Linux as my desktop OS at work and at home pretty much > full time since I first loaded Slackware from a huge stack of floppies > in '95. Since I've worked as a *NIX sysadmin and then a *NIX developer, > having a UNIXy desktop was wonderful. > > For last 2 1/2 years I've been using my personal laptop as my main > machine at work and then as my secondary machine at home. It started out > as RH7.3 and is now running FC1. It was time to replace this workhorse > and tomorrow it's replacement arrives; a shiny new Powerbook. Normally > the arrival of a new toy of this magnitude fills me with the same > anticipation that I felt on Christmas Eve as a child. This time it's > different. I feel like I'm cheating on my wife or I've given up on an > old friend. I just feel dirty. > > I do not plan on loading Yellowdog or any other of the Mac Linux > distros. As I said, this is my main machine for work. As much as I enjoy > the challenge that Linux sometimes poses, I can't afford the downtime at > work. While Linux makes a great desktop OS, my experience has been that > it's not so hot on laptops(ACPI anyone). I know it will get there. For > now, my productivity requires me to go elsewhere. > > I'm still running 3 Linux machines at home and a dozen or so at work, > but tomorrow will be a sad day for me just the same. It will be the end > of an era. > > Ken > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
