On 10/7/2010 12:52 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Bill Campbell wrote:
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Benjamin Franz wrote:
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'98. But it's starting to have a visible presence, thanks to Vista.
mark "both hands on the gun, point at foot, fire!"<snip> > I have gone from OpenDesktop on SCO in the early '90s to Linux from 1996 > or so to OS X shortly after it came out. The vast majority of my development > is on Linux servers, but OS X Just Works(tm), and I don't have to be > constantly fiddling to get tools working.
Of course, mo$t Mac $oftware comes with the Mac, and is all vetted by Apple. You might as well say the same for a plain vanilla Windows box.
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Except that you couldn't reasonably say Windows 'just works' for anything before XP, SP2 - or for vista.
I run CentOS both at home and work, but I put Ubuntu on my netbook, just because they have a remix just for HP netbooks. *shrug* It mostly just works.
Current OS versions are 'good enough' for most purposes. What matters is specific application availability, particularly if you need to exchange data with someone else in non-standard formats. And now that computers don't cost $10,000 each anymore, a lot of people will have several.