Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:52:10 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's BSD in this picture? Message-ID: <p05100308b74035fb05f4@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <p05001911b7400604dc8c@[192.168.168.205]> References: <200106011856.MAA22566@lariat.org> <200106011856.MAA22566@lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010602105353.04a1bd00@localhost> <p05001911b7400604dc8c@[192.168.168.205]>
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At 8:55 AM -0700 6/3/01, Rich Morin wrote:
> An interesting, if ill-defined conjecture. Do you meant that the
> Mac OS X software on most received machines is never activated or
> that it isn't activated as often as the Mac OS 9 software?
Since MacOS X has only very recently started shipping on every
new machine (but not turned on by default), it's almost certain that
he is not referring to MacOS X.
> They also decided to ship a Developer Tools
> CD with every boxed set of Mac OS X. This is pretty radical stuff.
Don't expect this to last. As soon as MacOS X Server (OSXS) 2.0
is shipping, I would expect the developer tools to disappear from
MacOS X itself. They really do want to restrict this stuff to just
developers and very early adopters, and everyone else can damn well
pay the $1000 it will cost, if they really want this stuff.
Face it, that's just the kind of crappy attitude that Apple has.
>>OS X has a ways to go yet before the average user
>>will want to run it.
>
> We have it running on a couple of machines. It seems to be stable,
> capable, and well-thought-out.
I hate to say it, but I'm with Brett on this.
No support for Lucent/Agere WaveLAN/Orinoco cards (even though
they are supported in MacOS 9 as "AirPort PC Cards", and the Apple
AirPort card is actually just a slightly modified Lucent/Agere
WaveLAN/Orinoco card with the external antenna removed and a
replacement fitting to attach to the built-in antenna in
AirPort-compatible computers.
Limited support for true Unix filesystems (still works best with
Mac HFS and HFS+).
The Finder clearly still has a long ways to go. There's still a
lot of work that needs to be done on the Dock, and some solution
needs to be found for the Control Strip.
There's more, but I think this is enough.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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