[Am-info] [OT] I've gone over to the brightly colored side.

[Sujal Shah]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 11:40, Mitch Stone wrote:
> --- From a message sent by Sujal Shah on 1/18/02 7:42 AM ---
> 
> >	Just as an FYI, I've done the improbable...  I needed to replace my
> >Vaio (running a heavily modified RedHat 7.1) because of some power
> >problems... so I went out and bought...
> >
> >an iBook.
[SNIP]
> I'm seeing a tremendous amount of interest in OS X from the Unix folks, 
> which really surprised me at first, but it probably should not. 
> Apparently Unix code ports into this environment quite readily. 

You're not kidding.  This was a key factor for me because I do a lot of
my development on a Linux box, both at work and at home.  I originally
got asked to take a look at porting this file system research prototype
(much less complicated than it sounds) over to Mac OS X because I had
written the bits necessary for Linux, and we hoped that a port would be
relatively trivial.  It wasn't, but in the process I saw how much WAS
the same.  It truly is nearly identical in the core.

In fact, from what I could tell, outside of OS drivers and OS specific
code, it's very similar to BSD and Linux.  

In fact, I think we'll see a lot of "Linux" companies getting a boost
from OS X.  For example, once the SDL libraries perform well (I don't
know the status, yet.   http://www.libsdl.org ), Loki et al should be
able to port games that aren't being released for Mac OS X to both Mac
OS X and Linux.  It's theoretically possible, but I'm not sure how well
the libraries perform in reality.

Qt and TrollTech might be another beneficiary of a larger installed
base... we'll see.

> 
> I saw an eye-opening demonstration of this at MacWorld San Francisco last 
> week from a guy who runs a movie special effects house. He took one of 
[SNIP]

Cool.  I'll let people know my experiences, if there's interest, over
the next few months as I get further into it 

[SNIP]
> full time in a couple of months. The missing piece of he puzzle is a 
> good, fully-featured e-mail client. Let me know if you find one.

My co-worker is using Eudora at home, and I'm considering downloading
the beta.  I may just stick with Mozilla (I still have a Linux box as my
main desktop, and all my mail is there with Evolution).

Sujal

> 
> But the best news is, I've yet to see OS X crash.
> 
> 
> 
>  Mitch Stone  
>  mitch@accidentalexpert.com
> 
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