Mini distro (Was: Re: old dogs...new tricks?)

[nathan r. hruby]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Christopher Murtagh wrote:

>  - Open office is still not that great under OS X, and X11 isn't fantastic 
> yet either. This means I would have to use M$ Office, which I really 
> dislike for so many reasons.
> 

Supposedly the next rev will be up to snuff.

>  - Changing /etc/hosts file doesn't work as expected.
> 

See DirectoryAccess.  you can add config files into the search path now.

>  - NetInfo Manager (need I say more?).
> 

niutil ;-P

>  - I've had my Powerbook for a month and I've had 3 kernel panics. I don't
> think I *ever* managed to crash my iBook running YDL. These were all
> caused by being connected to another machine via Airport, and then
> plugging into the LAN before dis-connecting the Airport mounted machines.
> 
>  - System paths/file names with uppercase letters and spaces.
> 

Argh!

>  - My biggest problem (and this isn't really one Apple can solve I think),
> is that I want to be able to have a system running on my laptop that is a
> micro version of the system I maintain for the university (Apache,
> Postgres, PHP web portal running on Dual Xeons, Apple G4s and YellowDog
> briQs). With my iBook, this was easy to do. I simply compiled the
> components the same way I did on the servers, config, set up an /etc/hosts
> file (so that machine names resolved locally) and - volia a portable
> version of the entire web site/system!
> 

This is doanle under OSX, jsut not as easy.. i like to do the same on my 
Pismo.. YDL jsut feels snappeier.

>  - The last thing is more of a geek pride thing (ok, I'll admit snobery
> here). It is a lot easier for me to show up at an IT meeting with
> Slolaris/Windoze geeks with a laptop running Linux than OS X. Right or
> wrong, OS X doesn't get the respect that Linux does. At least with Linux
> "I'm a rebel that knows what I'm doing" - with OS X, I'm a "rebel that
> plays with a toy/candydrop OS". It took me a long time to convince these 
> folks that Linux was a viable thing... convincing them that OS X is an 
> 'enterprise qualiy' OS is more difficult. This is not Apple's fault, they 
> are ingorant snobs, but I still have to work with them.
> 

>console
startx

They'll never know :)

-n
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