On 10/7/2010 12:52 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> Benjamin Franz wrote: >> ... >>> '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. > <snip> 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com