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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:34:40PM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 3:47 PM -0500 2/7/03, christophe barbe wrote:
> >I fail to see what would take more times to be done under linux than
> >under Mac OS-X. Perhaps an example to illustrate would help.
>
> 802.11/wireless support is my favorite example.
>
> On Mac OS X, you put the card into the slot and "it just works".
>
> On Linux, you have to deal (possibly) with older kernels that
> have to be updated/recompiled, devices, etc.
Put a wireless card NOT airport in an apple laptop under OS-X and you
would have different results. GNU/Linux and others Free OS supports a
lot more of hardware than what Apple has to support.
> Another good/related example is switching from static to
> dynamic IP addressing - such as when you go from work to home (or
> vice versa). On Mac OS X, you just plug in and it works - you don't
> have to do ANYTHING. On Linux, it's a MAJOR pain.
I don't know what is shipped today in Commercial Linux distribution but
there are a lot of software that have for only goal to detect your
environment and dynamically change your configuration accordingly. There
is a few in debian, for example laptop-net.
> > > needs to be. The three words you will hear a lot from OS X users is
> >> "it just works".
> >
> >I have more experience with Mac OS-X server than with Mac OS-X and I can
> >tell you as a user that the three words "it just works" doesn't apply.
>
> What version of Mac OS X Server?
10.2
> (No -'s here).
I didn't get that?
Again, I don't say that Mac OS-X is not good. It's a lot better than
Windows. It's better than Linux for some apps (emphasis on some). What I
don't understand is the visible switch from linux to OS-X. Hopefully I
believe that these 'switch's were mostly driven by a novelty effect and
what I see seems to indicate the same (I see more and more TiBook and
iBook linux users these days).
Christophe
>
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> LDR
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