Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Fwd: Linux at Sun: The Big Push
Apple does have a great OS, the core of which is Darwin, an open-source
version of BSD Unix. This is bringing back many people, especially
developers (myself included) to using MacOS X as the ultimate client
operating system (wonderful GUI, many end-user and developer
applications, and a deep, elegant Unix back end). It is with relief and
a sense of liberation that I can transition from using Windows
9X/NT/2000. (01)
I think MacOS X works in the client workstation space. If you're a
developer, it's the best thing going for developing server-based apps,
servlets, web services, etc, as well as client apps. You can deploy
server-based apps on MacOS X or other flavors of Unix (eg, Linux,
Solaris, BSD). Linux and Solaris are still great contenders in the
server space. MacOS X and Apple have a ways to go to providing a
complete server solution (rackmount, RAID, backups, etc). OS X is a
serious contender for the desktop/laptop market (this is being written
on a crisp, clean iBook); as such it competes with MS Windows. With the
death of Eazel a year ago, Gnu/ Linux was dealt a serious blow as a
desktop platform. Could still happen eventually, but meanwhile... (02)
Best,
Mark (03)
On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 02:20 PM, Jack Park wrote: (04)
> FYI...
> Playing with OS X on my son's G4 Mac suggests to me that Apple might be
> sitting on a great OS. Unix inside a proven interface. If they were
> to move OS X to Intel boxes, as Cringley suggested (my earlier
> forward), then I wonder how Linux and Solaris would fare... (05)