Flirting With Mac OS X

An anonymous reader wrote to us with an article on Byte from Moshe Bar about flirting with using OS X. Taco and I are both strongly considering beginning to use OS X as a primary laptops - anyone else looking at doing this? And anyone from Apple that can get me a good price on super TiBooks? *grin*

I did enjoy this part of the article:

[Anonymous Coward]

As an example, look at this very standard series of commands, used to install Perl 5.8 on my system:

[macosx:~] cd /usr/local/
[macosx:~] sudo mkdir src
[macosx:~] curl -O ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
[macosx:~] tar zxvf perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
[macosx:~] cd perl-5.8.0
[macosx:~] make distclean
[macosx:~] make
[macosx:~] make test
[macosx:~] sudo make install

You couldn't tell this was Mac OS X if I hadn't told you, right?

Hell no! I mean, just because the name of the damn OS is in the prompt; I would NEVER tell it was Mac OS X!

Re:What happend to your revolutionary principles?

[Anonymous Coward]

The 'New Toy' principle overrides 'Open Source' remember ?

Re:I did enjoy this part of the article:

[lburdet]

prompts can be changed...
back in the days where a funny prompt on the professor's overhead was funny, his was somehow changed to "{student X}deserves an A+$" on his telnet(i think) acct.
good thing the prof laughed :-)

Sooo many...

[alvieboy]

[macosx:~] cd /usr/local/
[macosx:~] sudo mkdir src
[macosx:~] curl -O ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
[macosx:~] tar zxvf perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
[macosx:~] cd perl-5.8.0
[macosx:~] make distclean
[macosx:~] make
[macosx:~] make test
[macosx:~] sudo make install


# apt-get install perl

Easier, hmm?

Alvie

Re:Mac Laptops

[override11]

Dont like nipples...

Cmon man, everybody likes nipples...
:-)

This could be the end of an era

[guttentag]

1. Slashdot editors switch to Mac laptops
2. They discover OmniWeb, which underlines misspelled words in textarea boxes as you type
3. Slashdot readers suddenly begin complaining that the editors have "forgotten" how to spell "properly."

Seriously, I would wait on buying a TiBook if I were you. Apple crippled the processors [macslash.org] in every model after the first generation. An 800-mhz TiBook with 32 megs of video ram may outperform a 500-mhz TiBook (8 megs vram, which makes a difference OS X) on most tasks, but the 500-mhz TiBook from January 2001 still encodes MP3s faster than the latest models. There's something fundamentally wrong with that. I would wait until Apple can produce a laptop that soundly outperforms its Jan 2001 model.

Re:After 17yrs of Windwoes and 3 yrs of Linux.

[Anonymous Coward]

If your lucky, education will fix your problem.

Re:Serious question

[TheLostOne]

why can't I put OSX on my IBM clone ... What am I missing?

The source.

Someone correct me if i'm wrong (ha.. as if i had to add that on /. ;) but Mac OSX is not open source... only parts of it are.

Sure you could get the kernel ported over.. but what then?

And in case anybody is expecting them to port those remaining closed bits anytime soon don't hold your breathe... being on apple certified hardware is what makes macos macos.

Re:Go for it.

[Lao-Tzu]

As for games, well, Transgaming's WineX is currently exceeding many people's expectations with regard to DirectX gaming on Linux. Heck, they had Warcraft 3 working within a couple weeks after it launched. Where's Warcraft 3 for OSX?

In the box, when you purchase W3.

Re:I did enjoy this part of the article:

[chegosaurus]

> I WANT OSX on the intel platform !!!

Yeah, and I want Episode III to be great. But it's not going to happen is it?

Re:I have the solution!

[minus9]

Yes, but you are comparing the triviality of getting married with the important decision of buying a new laptop.

Not only a new laptop, but one with a completely different operating system!

Flirting with Mac OS X?

[Steve Cowan]

Aww I was really hoping this article would be about how I can use my iBook to pick up girls in bars... I've tried this a few times and had no success...

"Hey baby, Steve Jobs says once you see this interface you'll want to lick it!"

"Your ~ or mine?"

"Let's make an iMovie!"

I Just switched from Linux

[brainchill]

I have been using linux exclusively for about the last 3 years I have had to keep (like a thorn in my side) a windows machine in my home to run Photoshop. Because, and we're being honest here, there is nothing in the linux world that will do everything that photoshop will do as well as photoshop does it. This month I made the Apple switch. I bought a TiPbook. I never even wanted to look back. I can run vi, pine, apache and Photoshop all on the same machine withought windows. And the interface just makes you smile. It's like they locked a bunch of graphics designers in a room with a pile of heroin and told them to go wild.

Re:I did enjoy this part of the article:

[zaphod110676]

In College I was a teaching assistant and worked in a computer lab. When students would leave the lab without logging out we would go in and change their prompt to say something like, "If I forget to log out of my Unix account bad things could happen to it -- The Lab Staff"

It was always amusing to see people who didn't know how to change it back and too embarrassed to ask with the altered prompt months later. =)

Re:Nothing beats... PINE!?!?!

[Nugget]

pine: people ignorant of newer emailers.

Re:troll

[Fillup]

Wait, isn't that usually your *left* hand onthe mouse/trackpad.......or maybe that's just me.