[TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession)

[Ken Mink]

I've been playing with an old G3 at home for a while now and have gotten
pretty familiar with OSX. I won't be doing a lot of development on the
machine. Basically just running an IDE. I love SlickEdit, but alas, they
don't run on OSX. A friend has pointed me a number of others that I will
be test driving, some open source, some commercial. The compilations
will take place on other machines. Other than that, all I'll need to add
is a 3270 emulator. Yes, some of the *NIX development I do is Unix
System Services under z/OS(Yuck).

This was an informed decision, I think. Of course, the best laid
plans.....

Ken

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:35, Smith, Brett wrote:
> You should feel dirty.
> Mac OSX is based on Darwin. a derivitive of 4.4BSD
> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
> the free version of Darwin is GNU-darwin.
> http://www.gnu-darwin.org
> 
> <sarcasm>All are evil bsd stuff.</sarcasm>
> 
> Use Yellow Dog....Feel Clean
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
> 
> In my experience Mac OS X requires as much work as Linux to setup for
> development.
> If you already know Linux it is not that hard a transition. 
> Fink is the key.
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Use as many GNU Open Source Apps as you can.
> 
> I hope this helps
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: staylor at openfieldsolutions.com
> [mailto:staylor at openfieldsolutions.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:10 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession)
> 
> 
> Don't feel dirty Ken, I believe MAC OS X is Linux or Unix based.
> 
> Now if that was you half naked on stage at 'The Lady' last night you 
> should be ashamed of yourself!
> 
> :-0
> 
> Shawn
> 
> Ken Wrote:
> 
> I've been using Linux as my desktop OS at work and at home pretty much
> full time since I first loaded Slackware from a huge stack of floppies
> in '95. Since I've worked as a *NIX sysadmin and then a *NIX developer,
> having a UNIXy desktop was wonderful.
> 
> For last 2 1/2 years I've been using my personal laptop as my main
> machine at work and then as my secondary machine at home. It started out
> as RH7.3 and is now running FC1. It was time to replace this workhorse
> and tomorrow it's replacement arrives; a shiny new Powerbook. Normally
> the arrival of a new toy of this magnitude fills me with the same
> anticipation that I felt on Christmas Eve as a child. This time it's
> different. I feel like I'm cheating on my wife or I've given up on an
> old friend. I just feel dirty.
> 
> I do not plan on loading Yellowdog or any other of the Mac Linux
> distros. As I said, this is my main machine for work. As much as I enjoy
> the challenge that Linux sometimes poses, I can't afford the downtime at
> work. While Linux makes a great desktop OS, my experience has been that
> it's not so hot on laptops(ACPI anyone). I know it will get there. For
> now, my productivity requires me to go elsewhere.
> 
> I'm still running 3 Linux machines at home and a dozen or so at work,
> but tomorrow will be a sad day for me just the same. It will be the end
> of an era.
> 
> Ken
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