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links for 2010-01-12 « Where Is All This Leading To? — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:35:34 +0000

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By: tripleX

tripleX — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:58:03 +0000

I like my tv, radio, dvd-player, my fridge, my cooker. Very useful. But I love my car and I love my Mac.

By: utahnix

utahnix — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:59:15 +0000

OS X has some great things about it, but not all of us think it’s the cat’s meow. OS X is no more *the* OS than XP, Vista or 7 is. It’s a choice. Nothing more – at least in my opinion.

I like that OS X was originally built atop many open components – i.e. CUPS, KHTML, BSD, Samba, etc, etc… but I don’t like how Apple has caked a thick, proprietary layer atop it.

In my mind, the question is… is OS X really open, or very closed? Both? Neither? It’s hard to say, IMO.

While I will give Apple cudos for realizing that open-source code is high-quality stuff, and that it generally does the job really well, I find many of their marketing claims a bit hypocritical. The so-called “Redmond, start your photocopiers” bit they did when Tiger was released was particularly hypocritical. Copying ideas (Microsoft) is one thing… copying source code, line by line (Apple), is another.

And the debate on security… well, is debatable. There is no way to conclusively prove what OS is more secure, regardless of what opinions may exist on either side.

The way I see it, a lot of the best features from OS-X (IMHO) came from the OSS community, not Apple. And Microsoft, they just buy their competition’s products and then slap MS logos on them… or litigate the competition out of existence.

And Linux… well, Linux isn’t for everyone either. It can be hard to configure, and getting software to install isn’t always a walk in the park, especially when you run into dependency problems. Hardware support (thanks to cheap hardware and companies that refuse to play nice) can be tricky. But it’s transparent, and that’s why I like it. But then again I don’t expect any of you to agree with me. I believe there is no such thing as “best” per-se.

I suppose I see Apple and Microsoft as players in a large game of economics… where either will take whatever control of the market they can get, and will do whatever they can to get it, whether it’s good for the consumer or not. I think both companies have had their share of hypocrisy.

And to be honest, companies like Novell and RedHat want their share of the pie and will do almost anything to get it as well. But I think Apple and Microsoft are worse.

That’s my two cents. I’m sure there will be rebuttals to my comments. I’m expecting it.

By: Madeleine Tarlton

Madeleine Tarlton — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:26:31 +0000

Beitrag * lol: P

By: abercrombie

abercrombie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:40:07 +0000

Thanks for sharing informations.Looking forward to more stuff.

By: homs

homs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:42:17 +0000

once you go mac you never look back

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By: Odor Eliminators

Odor Eliminators — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:32:12 +0000

Do you know if Mac is going to develop another OS X boot process? I’d be interested in finding out. Thanks.

By: Canadianfff

Canadianfff — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:55:42 +0000

Nice article, had no idea what happens when Mac OS loads.

By: zyrtec

zyrtec — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:49:39 +0000

Thanks for the run down of Mac OS. Always been a PC owner myself just because i’m more familiar with it. Thinking for buying Mac.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:49:17 +0000

great designs

By: internet

internet — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:38:55 +0000

This all is no longer true. In the Leopard everything changed and the mentioned scripts no longer exists. Over time unix-like features stolen from BSD-Unix became more and more crippled. Fare well OSX …

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The Cave » Blog Archive » What happens in the Mac OS X boot process? — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:20:47 +0000

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By: BillyBoy

BillyBoy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:21:50 +0000

I just love Apple designs..

By: alex

alex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:47:36 +0000

To search for a file through the entire actual partition, you can use:

$ find / -name “file.ext”

where file.ext is the name and extension of the file to be searched.

It’s the same as in other *NIX system, I think.
Alex