Comments on: Mac OS X from a GNU/Linux User http://blog.nethazard.net/mac-os-x-from-a-linux-user/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Gabriel Saldana's blog about web development, free software and other lifestyle topics Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:55:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Reid http://blog.nethazard.net/mac-os-x-from-a-linux-user/comment-page-1/#comment-2910 Reid Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:12:21 +0000 http://blog.nethazard.net/?p=235#comment-2910 To navigate up in either the Finder or in the file dialog, use command-uparrow. To navigate up in either the Finder or in the file dialog, use command-uparrow.

]]> By: Alph http://blog.nethazard.net/mac-os-x-from-a-linux-user/comment-page-1/#comment-2818 Alph Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:33:32 +0000 http://blog.nethazard.net/?p=235#comment-2818 Apple can afford a centralised music repository, so why not a software one? For proprietary software developers this would mean an established store that would be there for them to sell their software through. And if they want to be the ones doing the sales, Apple could allow for a per-purchase token system: buyer is issued with a token by the developer which can then be used to obtain the software from the apple repository. Licences are maintained centrally, so even if you remove the package from your computer you retain the option to re-install it. More importantly a package manager is an agreed method: if Apple provided the management application, then decentralised repositories could be linked-in at the user's own risk; an Apple repository need not hold everything. I own a June 2009 macbook pro, bought because looks and build appealed too me. I tried running Ubuntu on it, but gave up a few weeks ago after exhausting all remedies for preventing the laptop from getting too hot. I like having full control over the look and behaviour of both OS and applications. OS X just doesn't allow for that (the only platform on which VLC cannot be used with themes?). Crucially, unix applications are second-class citizens; X11 just feels out of place in OS-X. There are times when I feel I've been had: there is a free OS out there that does all I want, but I paid a considerable amount of money to buy a computer that prevents me from using it! :-) Apple can afford a centralised music repository, so why not a software one? For proprietary software developers this would mean an established store that would be there for them to sell their software through. And if they want to be the ones doing the sales, Apple could allow for a per-purchase token system: buyer is issued with a token by the developer which can then be used to obtain the software from the apple repository. Licences are maintained centrally, so even if you remove the package from your computer you retain the option to re-install it. More importantly a package manager is an agreed method: if Apple provided the management application, then decentralised repositories could be linked-in at the user’s own risk; an Apple repository need not hold everything.

I own a June 2009 macbook pro, bought because looks and build appealed too me. I tried running Ubuntu on it, but gave up a few weeks ago after exhausting all remedies for preventing the laptop from getting too hot. I like having full control over the look and behaviour of both OS and applications. OS X just doesn’t allow for that (the only platform on which VLC cannot be used with themes?). Crucially, unix applications are second-class citizens; X11 just feels out of place in OS-X. There are times when I feel I’ve been had: there is a free OS out there that does all I want, but I paid a considerable amount of money to buy a computer that prevents me from using it! :-)

]]> By: Sharninder http://blog.nethazard.net/mac-os-x-from-a-linux-user/comment-page-1/#comment-2596 Sharninder Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:26:16 +0000 http://blog.nethazard.net/?p=235#comment-2596 Much of what you're writing comes from the fact that you're moving to OS X from Linux. For example, OS X doesn't have a central repository and you had to install Macports to get that. Tell, which other commercial OS has a repository ? Does Windows have one ? Only Linux and the BSDs can afford to do that because the repositories are maintained by the users and the distribution maker doesn't have to worry about them too much or support or even certify the software that those repos contain. For all they care, the user can download and install viruses from those repos. Much of what you’re writing comes from the fact that you’re moving to OS X from Linux. For example, OS X doesn’t have a central repository and you had to install Macports to get that. Tell, which other commercial OS has a repository ? Does Windows have one ? Only Linux and the BSDs can afford to do that because the repositories are maintained by the users and the distribution maker doesn’t have to worry about them too much or support or even certify the software that those repos contain. For all they care, the user can download and install viruses from those repos.

]]> By: Édouard Brière http://blog.nethazard.net/mac-os-x-from-a-linux-user/comment-page-1/#comment-2592 Édouard Brière Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:45:23 +0000 http://blog.nethazard.net/?p=235#comment-2592 For getting and updating software, you might want to check out homebrew: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/ This is basically Mac OS X’s missing packaging system. Installing anything with it is then as simple as `brew install something` It’s also much cleaner than fink or ports. For getting and updating software, you might want to check out homebrew: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/

This is basically Mac OS X’s missing packaging system. Installing anything with it is then as simple as `brew install something`

It’s also much cleaner than fink or ports.

]]> By: Julian http://blog.nethazard.net/mac-os-x-from-a-linux-user/comment-page-1/#comment-2551 Julian Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:58:19 +0000 http://blog.nethazard.net/?p=235#comment-2551 I went through the same thing, and had to switch back to debian. I still have to touch OS X regularly to ensure some things work on all platforms, and every time it's a reminder of how much better a system like debian suits me. (And serves me; I can't get over how many things are irritatingly manual under OS X. I always feel like I'm wasting a lot of time using it.) Also, strangely enough, I never had the luck with peripherals other people seem to have had -- most of the devices I wanted to use under OS X (all of which were nicely supported under Linux) didn't work out of the box (the only USB device that _has_ worked was a printer), and needed flaky, usually shareware, drivers. Not trying to hate on OS X here, but just to confirm to you that you're not alone in finding that it's no developer's paradise. (OTOH, I'm also the sort of person who, if I encounter a bug while using a program, I like to have the option to try and fix it immediately rather than just reporting it and waiting.) I went through the same thing, and had to switch back to debian. I still have to touch OS X regularly to ensure some things work on all platforms, and every time it’s a reminder of how much better a system like debian suits me. (And serves me; I can’t get over how many things are irritatingly manual under OS X. I always feel like I’m wasting a lot of time using it.)

Also, strangely enough, I never had the luck with peripherals other people seem to have had — most of the devices I wanted to use under OS X (all of which were nicely supported under Linux) didn’t work out of the box (the only USB device that _has_ worked was a printer), and needed flaky, usually shareware, drivers. Not trying to hate on OS X here, but just to confirm to you that you’re not alone in finding that it’s no developer’s paradise. (OTOH, I’m also the sort of person who, if I encounter a bug while using a program, I like to have the option to try and fix it immediately rather than just reporting it and waiting.)

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