Subject: LinuxPPC+MOL versus MacOS X Public Beta
From: Philippe Lelédy (pleledy001@cybercable.fr)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 08:21:06 MDT
As a happy B&W G3, LinuxPPC, MOL 0.9.50 and MacOS 8.6 I was wandering if MacOS X Public Beta
was a good solution.
After a few tests I can say that MacOS X Public Beta is full BSD without X.
You have a very nice Terminal window with tcsh.
All the networks daemons are there (named (BIND), sendmail, procmail, apache,
dhcpd etc ..) which is convenient for me.
But you have no compiler. A bypass is possible by copying them from a Darwin
partition. Installing a new software is not easy.
You can add X11 (from Darwin), but switching betwen MacOS, console and X11 is
very unconfortable, I think you have to reboot for switching between MacOS and
X11.
Under MacOS X GUI you can't execute any classic MacOS application if you can't
boot from a Mac OS 9, which I've not got.
At present MacOS X PB means for me a liitlle useful BSD + a little useful
MacOS.
I'll go on using LinuxPPC+MOL.
But I am excited to see Apple putting BSD under millions of basic customers.
Finally they spent years for making what free sotware has already done in less
time (UNIX + Mac), but the real challenge is in gaining users massively adopt a
BSD base OS.
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