![]() I would like to see more OSS on it and I would like to see Apple contribute more back to the OSS community, but I am also realistic in that Apple is a business and will GIVE back as little as possible and developers won’t be doing a lot of native development on OS X… it will continue to be X11/Gnome/KDE based in the future so that it can continue to be built on multiple platforms, easily. But even with its shortcomings, OS X is a fine operating system and I DO enjoy using it. If it were an option, I’d rather have the old Platinum OS 8, OS 9 interface (obviously rewritten to take advantage of Darwin underneath it, or perhaps something else, like Copland which has recently been mentioned). The linux kernel is becoming more powerful and flexible – different model than a mach micro with layered services, but but effective nonetheless.Īs far as polish… OS X is pleasing to the eye but once again Apple has introduced incongruities to the interface and Finder has come through another iteration with little change. Both GNOME and KDE are very polished and I have enjoyed using them in the past and will, no doubt, use them again in the future. But I think your statement seems to intimate that linux has a poor interface and is only useful as a server I disagree. OS X is very nice, I use it at home (100% now) for work and play. ![]() The of course has to be mentioned, although I tend to use the shareware even when Photoshop is available. ![]() Oddly enough, most of my game collection is playable on OS X, but only through OSS: Doom 2, Quake 1 & 2, Abuse, Myth 1, and a whole mess of adventure games. ![]() Okay, so what OSS is out there which is actually interesting to Mac Heads? There is always some obscure project out there I want to try (say ), and fink is the easiest way to get the libraries I need to have a chance to compile. … at least if you intend to be compiling free software. I was using Mozilla up until Firefox’s 1.0 release.įink: Learn it, use it, love it. Safari has gotten better over time and is now useable, but I stick with Firefox for most things. Camino is fun for a bit, but has always gotten on my nerves after a while. I tend to use it from the command line, but the GUI is okay.įirefox? Of course. Why install these three when I can just install MPlayer. It keeps me from having to worry about Real Player, Windows Media Player and DivX’s player. Beautiful peice of software, but you will be using X11.app for that, and I do.Īll of these requirements can be filled by Microsoft Office, which isn’t to say that I endorse this but instead to ask OSS developers to think of ways they can distinguish themselves from MS… other than Linux support. Heard mixed things about it in every review I have read, but never really had a reason to use it.įor OSS spread sheets I would reccomend Gnumeric, hands down. I do find OO.org to be rather buggy short sighted in some of its OS X assumptions: you get strange errors if you install OO.org as one user and try to run it as another. Since this article doesn’t really mention, OO.org can be used in OS X although it requires X11.app. I have used OO.org on three platforms, and have been less than impressed with its abilities as a WP. My oppinion is that this is the OSS word processor to support, on any platform. Hub has done a pretty awesome job of porting AbiWord. Maybe I’m not the target of the article since I am an OS X user, but I would have prefered more depth.
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