Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux

Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux 659

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday October 31, 2003 @05:12AM from the apples-and-penguins dept.

M.Broil writes "This is a nice and fairly complete 'first look' at Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), but author Chris Gulker, who I happen to know was an Apple PR guy years ago, spends a lot of time comparing the Mac 'Panther' release to Linux, which he seems to use most of the time these days. He obviously likes a lot about Panther, but he doesn't think many Linux users will switch to it, and that a lot of 'Classic' Mac OS users may not want to move to it, either."

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In college I went through a Mac phase (Score:3, Funny)

by Dancin_Santa ( 265275 ) writes: <DancinSanta@gmail.com> on Friday October 31, 2003 @05:19AM (#7356278) Journal

This was back when the monitors didn't come separately from the rest of the machine (i.e. before that Mac clone fiasco).

I always loved the Mac interface because of its easy of use and very solid color support. I found that it was easy to make rainbows for my group's posters using the PageMaker software, much easier than anything on an IBM PC.

I eventually grew out of my 'rainbow' phase and am back using Windows and sometimes even Linux (Yellow Dog, for when I'm feeling a little 'crazy'!), but the experience just isn't the same. We Mac users are a happy community, and sometimes I just want to give old Steve Jobs a hand.

Re:In college I went through a Mac phase (Score:5, Funny)

by Negatyfus ( 602326 ) writes: on Friday October 31, 2003 @05:36AM (#7356330) Journal

sometimes I just want to give old Steve Jobs a hand.

Am I the only one that finds this remark a little disturbing? My Gods, the mental image I got from this!

Stability (Score:5, Funny)

by rf0 ( 159958 ) writes: <rghf@fsck.me.uk> on Friday October 31, 2003 @05:56AM (#7356392) Homepage

Well he does say

"I think nothing of leaving apps and files open for days or even weeks on the Linux machine.".

Now that is cool. Nice endorsment of Linux's stability. However I still think he should say that he does save once in a while as stable as Linux is it can't survive the power cord being pulled out the back or a child putting a pop tart in the CD-ROM drive

Rus

Re:external hdd (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday October 31, 2003 @10:21AM (#7357459)

Linux doesn't earse external disk because it could not even see it.

Re:Here are the applications... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday October 31, 2003 @10:34AM (#7357575)

Talent

Re:Here are the applications... (Score:3, Funny)

by GeorgeH ( 5469 ) writes: on Friday October 31, 2003 @10:45AM (#7357706) Homepage Journal

Which of those don't run on Mac OS X?

Re:What makes MacOS X better... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday October 31, 2003 @11:31AM (#7358251)

Is that MacOS X has several high-quality specialised desktop applications to its name, and Linux hasn't got any.
Oh yeah, what about xeyes?

Re:MacOS (Score:3, Funny)

by poot_rootbeer ( 188613 ) writes: on Friday October 31, 2003 @12:57PM (#7359449)

that will continue to be the case for as long as apple does not sell POS systems

I had a Mac LCII many years ago. That thing was a POS.

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