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Opinion: Decisions, Eric
DeStefano, Mac Metamorphosis, 12/9. Eric tries to choose the best
used Mac for today - and OS X in the future.
OS: Mac OS X:
The NeXT generation, Bill von Hagen, Adobe Magazine. "The core
component of Mac OS X is the Mach kernel, initially developed at
Carnegie-Mellon University in the 1980s and enhanced and fine-tuned
ever since."
OS/Web: Xappeal, OS X
site, is back. Site was pulled by previous host because it was too
busy, but new host has more bandwidth.
News: Mac OS X Developer
Preview 2 progress report, MOSR, 11/19. "This operating system
completely changes the rules - in no small part by barely changing
the user's experience at all."
Analysis: Apple
defends UK Mac OS 9 chop, Macworld UK, 11/9. Canucks, Aussies,
Brits, and others will have to get used to American English on
their Macs. (I guess we really did win the Revolutionary War!)
Advice: Virtual memory, Ask Al, Alsoft, 11/9. "Virtual memory
cannot work with programs stored on all types of disks. If a disk
has very slow throughput, is accessed over a network, or is
manually ejectable (without a software lock), a program stored on
the disk will run as if virtual memory was off."
Software: OS 9
spells end to After Dark, MacCentral, 11/9. Berkeley Systems
has no plans to make After Dark screen saver OS 9 compatible.
Analysis: Home Page
Lives!, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 11/4. It does work
with OS 9.
Opinion: "I" in iMac for
Inferior?, Evan Kleiman, Mac Happens, 11/4. "...after
installing Mac OS 9 on your iMac, you'll feel inferior to your
little computer."
News: OS 9
(in)security, Think Secret, 10/28. "Also note that by starting
up from a CD or other System Folder, anyone can gain full access to
your computer. Important files should still be backed up routinely,
and they should be encrypted to keep anyone from opening
them."
Advice: Mac OS 9
install guide, MacTips. Step-by-step guide from preparation
through installation.
Benchmark: Mac OS 8.6
vs. 9.0, Mac Speed Zone. OS 8.6 seems to be a bit faster.
Opinion: Barriers to
entry?, MacWeek, 10/21. "On the other hand I want Mac OS X to
act like a minor system upgrade so there are no barriers to entry
for the Mac community...."
OS: Mac OS 9
Special Report, MacNN. Ongoing report of OS 9 issues, including
software incompatibilities.
Review: Mac OS
9, Macworld UK. "I have not had OS 9 installed for long, but it
has reduced my number of crashes noticeably."
Opinion: Ten 6
Things I Hate About OS 9, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 10/14.
"Apple makes insanely great computers running insanely great
operating systems. However, sometimes stepping forward also
involves a few steps back."
OS 9: Mac OS 9 arrives!,
Macs Only, 10/12. "Since I installed Mac OS 9 earlier today my Mac
hasn't crashed once! This is a new record for my Mac."
Opinion: The
new iMac and Mac OS 9, Jeff Lewis, Mac Opinion, 10/12. "Is this
the iMac I wanted? Well, not quite, but it's a lot closer...."
OS 9: Review:
Mac OS 9, MacSoldiers, 10/11. "Obviously I haven't had a whole
lot of time to tinker around with the new operating system, but I
did get to play enough to notice a few things."
News: $20 Mac OS 9
rebate, Apple Computer. Owners of Mac OS 8.5-8.6 may qualify
for $20 rebate. Details on coupon in OS 9 box. ($89.95 from
Outpost.com)
OS: Mac OS 9
visual tour, MacNN. "The overall interface of Mac OS 9 remains
virtually unchanged...."
Rumor: Mac OS
9.0 reaches Final Candidate 9, AppleInsider, 10/1. "The release
will 'officially' be unveiled during Apple's Media Event to be held
on October 5th...."
OS: Mac
OS X Server, sent by Dagwood?, Todd Stauffer, MacCentral, 9/21.
"Mac OS X Server is the coolest, most svelte, most interesting
installation of Un*x I've ever seen."
OS: LinuxPPC & Mac OS X,
macos-x.com, 9/15. Even-handed analysis of OS 10 vs. LinuxPPC.
Rumor: OS X Client $99?
G4/400 cut by year's end?, MOSR, 9/10. Apple aiming for $99
price and January delivery of OS X Client. "Yikes" G4 may be
discontinued shortly after Sawtooth ships.
Opinion: OS X: The
last step to world domination, Paul Yap, osOpinion. "If MacOS X
Client delivers on its' promises, then the G4 will have an OS
worthy of it."
Opinion:
IBM PowerPC motherboards: Apple's biggest opportunity yet,
Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 8/20. "...it will offer some great
exposure for the PowerPC processor to lots of places that would
probably not even consider running a Mac or MacOS X Server. That
exposure will help Apple eat away at the Wintel hegemony...."
Opinion: Strange days
for AIM, MacWeek, 8/19. "...a combination of third-party
PowerPC boxes and Apple's open-source Darwin OS is just a short
step away from running Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware."
OS: Amazing,
thy name is Ten, MacTeens. "OS X looks to be a representative
for the true future of computing."
OS: Good
outweighs bad with Mac OS X Server, Byte.com, 7/19. "For
starters, X Server is that Holy Grail Mac people have been begging
for for years: a modern OS."
Opinion: Will Mac OS X Client
succeed?, Xappeal. "...the advantages will make themselves
apparent when the Mac OS X Client version offers superior
features."
OS: This time
the Flavorade is sweet, I, Cringely, 7/15. "Linux is already
taking what would have been at least $2 billion in annual sales
away from Windows NT. Microsoft spokespeople have said as
much...."
News: Amiga chooses Linux for next generation OS kernel,
MacTimes, 7/14. With Mac going OS X and IBM's OS/2 out of
contention, the PC world will soon be divided between Unix-like
operating systems and proprietary ones (read: Microsoft
Windows).
OS: Mac
on Linux runs Mac OS on many PowerPC-based Macs.
OS: Mac OS X developer
preview 1, Mac OS Rumors, 7/7. "...paves the way for one of the
most important revolutions in Mac computing since the PowerPC
processor."
OS X: OS X on
old Power Macs?, Xappeal. "...the Client release will support a
wider range of hardware than the Server release."
OS X: Where's the
new finder?, MacKiDo, 6/28. "As Mac users, we need to face the
fact that the NeXT acquisition of Apple is complete."
OS: The promise of
Mac OS X, About.com, 6/21. "Most Mac OS users have high
expectations for their Mac: it should just plain work."
OS: Mac OS
X, raising the bar, Sunworld, 6/99. "Although I use FreeBSD for
my server, I use (gasp!) Mac OS on my desktop machine."
Opinion: Five keys to Mac
OS X success, MacWeek, 6/17. "Can Apple release an operating
system so compelling that . . . owners of older Macs buy a new
computer to run the new operating system?"
OS: Packages (new
resources), MacKiDo, 6/16. The way Apple bundles resources is
changing with Mac OS X and Carbon.
OS: What
is Quartz?, MacKiDo, 6/14. "Apple created a new graphics
system, for OS X, which is called Quartz."
Review: Mac OS X Server
on the right track, Network Computing. "Although Mac OS X
Server is a perfectly viable server as it stands, Apple is
continuing to fine-tune it."
Review: Mac
OS X - Ready to serve, NewMedia. "What you get is a pre-emptive
multitasking, protected memory, multi-user, server operating
system-UNIX that runs on Apple hardware."
OS: The Unix war:
Epilogue, osOpinion. "Compare this to the Windows or Macintosh
communities where the OSes, while superficially customizable in
appearance, are virtually identical underneath."
Opinion: Mac OS
X Server no easier than NT, so why bother?, Computerworld,
5/31. "...it was a shock to use an operating system that spread
related functions across four very different interfaces in a
seemingly random way."
Opinion: Every OS has
its niche, osOpinion. "Mac OS X is the most promising of the
bunch." "The Mac OS is the most mature consumer OS."
OS: Mac OS X Client delayed
to 2000, MacInTouch, 5/10
Apple shifting to Mach 3.0 microkernel, new "Quartz" windowing
system, and different compiler.
OS: File naming,
MacKiDo, 5/7
Long file names, spaces, special characters, accent, and smart
searching set Mac OS apart.
Opinion: Name
your poison, Mac Opinion, 5/7
Fascinating (albeit lengthy) article about human folly past and
present, including Microsoft and Apple.
Rumor: Mac OS X to run PC
software?, Think Secret, 5/6
"Apple is probably going to outright buy Insignia and Connectix
once it has Mac OS X far along enough that it can focus on
integrating PC software support and making that support as
transparent as possible."
First Look: Mac OS X
Server, MacWeek, 5/5
"One of the differences between Mac OS X Server and the current
desktop Mac OS is the versatile multiuser environment."
Review:
Mac OS X Server delivers, Infoworld, 5/3
"Mac OS X Server is essentially a Unix box running a GUI that looks
like Finder and acts like a combination of Finder and
NextStep...."
Analysis: Can OS
X Server catch up?, Xappeal
"If you make a Unix port with no Mac-like interface, then you lose
your reason for porting it to OSXS in the first place...."
Networking: Put your files in the fast lane, Macworld
Online
"In this, the first in a series of Macworld articles to focus on
working effectively in a networked world, Macworld Lab tested Mac
OS-, Windows NT-, and even Unix-based servers...."
OS: Apple
patches Mac OS X Server, Apple TIL 11355
Updates Mac OS X Server to 1.0-1, improves NetBook and QuickTime
performance
Opinion:
Is Apple doing Unix right?, Mac Opinion, 4/20
"The combination of Apple's usability engineering with the positive
side of the Open Software movement is great."
OS: Linux
shortchanged in comparison, Xappeal, 4/20
"...I use Linux on a daily basis for word processing, programming,
game playing, web browsing, etc., so I have enough of a grasp on
the system to offer a credible rebuttal to the errors in the
original article's criticisms."
Analysis: Linux and OS X: a
comparison, Xappeal
"...Linux is only free if your time is worthless. It offers great
stability, but OS X is ready to go NOW, and anyone who has used the
MacOS or NeXTStep can probably set up a server using it in an
afternoon."
Opinion: Is PowerPC on a
limb?, MacKiDo, 4/14
"This whole premise that Apple is going to 'exit the PowerPC model
in 3 years' is someone's delusion."
Rumor: Apple to move on
Merced, The Register, 4/13
"Clearly an Intel insider can't be taken at face value where a
rival processor platform is concerned."
OS: Pick
the best OS, osOpinion
"...the winning OS is the best OS when you consider all the things
a computer can do today and what is required to get it to perform
these duties."
OS: Developers
flocking to OS X Server, Applelinks, 3/30
"Third-party vendors are already supporting Apple's new server OS
with image processing, Web-browser, networking, e-commerce, email,
newsgroup, Web server, database server, media asset management,
system backup, file compression and software development tools,
with more products on the way."
OS: Apple
OS [X] could win some IT hearts, InternetWeek, 3/29
"It's a very stable system. The G3 servers never go down. The thing
has never crashed."
Opinion:
The OS is dead; long live the OS, osOpinion, 3/24
"...OS X, as a descendant of OpenStep, is a major step toward the
disintegration of the operating system as we know it."
Opinion: The floodgates
are opening, Macinsite, 3/23
"Apple has opened the core source code of the software to the Open
Source community. This move promises to popularize the operating
system to the development community, and will pave the way for
enhancements that Apple's already-outgunned engineering staff could
never accomplish alone."
OS X Server:
They missed the point of OS X Server!, OS Opinion
"When combined with the new G3 Server model, it is the fastest
Apache [web] server under $5,000, beating NT4 and Linux on an Intel
450 PII by a significant margin."
OS X Server: Ten Hut!,
Tales from the Mac Side, 3/19
"What OS X should do best is what NT has been trying desperately to
do all along - bring network administration down to end-user
simplicity levels."
A modest
proposal to make parts of Mac OS X into an open source project
like Linux, Don Yacktman. After Windows and the Mac OS, open source
Linux is #3 and growing fast. It may already have a larger
installed base than Windows NT and could soon rival the Mac OS. Can
Apple tap into the open source mindset and position OS X as a cross
platform option?
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