[ic] Mac OSX viable as a development platform?

[Robert Brandtjen]

On Tuesday 05 March 2002 10:02 pm, Michael Stearne wrote:
> Stay with "UFS gets less fragmented", don't try to compare Linux and
> MacOS on ease of use.

Oh please - everyone on this list knows that Linux is just fine as per 
usability - with infinitely more choice then you have. 

My latest box:

dual P3 1.4 ghz processors
on the main board ultra scsi Raid
on the MB ultra DMA 
4x AGP
6 PCI slots 
ICC or 133 ram
dual redundant Power Supplies (hot swappable)
Dual IBM UW drives
1.5 gigs (up to 4 gigs ram)
IDE DVD drive
SCSI CD-RW
SCSI tape drive
Dual ethernet cards (3COM and SMC - do that on your mac)
GeForce3 TI Video
3dFX Voodoo5 ( just because I still love it - removed it from an older Mac)
on the MB dual Firewire (4 ports)
4 USB ports (on the MB)
MS Intellimouse
MS internet Key board
Hot Swappable drive bay
IRDA (on the MB)
UPS support (built into Linux)

Built by me - RH 7.2 burned on a Mac and installed by me - all up and running 
in less then 2 hours.  And it all JUST RAN - right out of the downloaded ISO!

install a tape drive and see what your mac does, install that Voodoo5 and see 
what it does - hey - get RAID going.

20 minutes later i had ripped Eric Claptons Lala album and burned the full 
.wav files ( saved as both .wav and .mp3 files) to CD and gave it to my son - 
the Cd that is - all the while serving webpages off it (tared from another 
box, config file included)

I navigate where and when ever I want to on this OS, when i need an app, I go 
to sourceforge and get it. I track my servers on RH Network, it lets me know 
in a snap whats installed and what needs to be updated - such updates are 
there in a heartbeat via up2date.                

i have used Mac OS classic, Mac OS X - rhapsody and MAc OX 10  in varing 
stages since 1988 - I know from which I speak, My Linux rocks - the hardware 
rocks.

You can't even buy a machine like that from Apple - never will be able to 
either.
-- 
 Robert Brandtjen
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