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> Now that's all well and good, but I believe right now the all-time
> champion of almost everything is (perhaps surprisingly) Mac OS X. You
> get Aqua, you can emulate a non-trivial Windows PC, you can run *rootless
> X* with Aqua...life is getting seriously good. Heck, you can even use MS
> Office on the thing if you have to.
>
> Seriously, you have no idea how cool this can get. Some of you may have
> seen performance issues on previous versions of OS X, but most of those
> have been addressed. The only time I get impatient these days is in the
> automatic software update/installation drill. In an rpm-based system like
> Linux, this is blindingly fast. Under OS X, it is (for some reason)
> mind-numbingly slow. Also, some Classic applications (notably Kid Pix)
> are still a real chore to run under OS X. But everything else is really
> great. :-)
Mmmm. If only they'd release the rest of the source so I wasn't torn. Part
of the source is better than none but not good enough. ;)
To bad I hate the Aqua interface. To much eye candy for my tastes.
It is better than Windows or previous versions of MacOS at least. :)
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