Analysis: Fascinating
discussion of Mac OS X, 2D graphics performance, and
Cocoa vs. Carbon speed in Maca Only, 12.27.
Where Apple and ATI
have gone before, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 12.27.
Millions of Mac users deserve better than the second-rate
drivers they're getting in Mac OS X. If Apple and
ATI won't deliver, they can at least let someone else
step up to the plate.
Opinion: A
realistic look at the ATI chip conspiracy, Mac Night
Owl, 12.26. "If Apple and ATI were ordered by court or
convinced by incessant user demand to commit resources to
get make those older chips work better under Mac OS X,
would it make any difference?"
Rage at being left
behind, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 12.24. It's official
- Apple doesn't plan to support graphics acceleration
for any Mac (except the b&w G3) with ATI Rage
video.
OS X: It's
official: Apple remains committed to sub-standard ATI
graphics performance in OS X, Remy Davison,
Insanely Great Mac, 12.22. Apple now states it does not
plan to support acceleration with ATI Rage II+, IIc, Pro,
Pro Turbo, LT Pro, or Mobility chipsets, leaving
WallStreet and Lombard PowerBooks, iMac Rev. A-D, beige
G3s, and original iBook and iBook SE users behind.
OS X: Getting
to the source of Mac OS X, Chris Coleman, O'Reilly,
12.21. "...what many people don't know is that the source
code for much of Mac OS X is available to the
public."
OS X and the beige
G3, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, 12.21. OS X
runs decently on a beige G3, but also cripples the floppy
drive, printer port, graphics performance....
Opinion: Is
OS X the real user friendly Linux?, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 12.21. "...with the ascendancy of Mac OS X,
prospects for a desktop Linux breakthrough look bleaker
than ever."
Opinion: Mac
OS X is the death of Linux on the desktop, Kimbro
Staken, XML Databases, 12.17. "I think Apple has hit the
right balance of open and closed source development and
the tide is turning with Mac OS X stealing from the Linux
community."
Early G3s losing
support, 12.14. If Symantec is abandoning early G3
support, can Apple be far behind?
Opinion: OS X and the iMac
266, Alan Zisman, 10 Forward, 11.30. Some real trials
installing OS X 10.0 on a Revision C iMac - but all
is fine now.
Web: EverythingMac.org,
a very new site dedicated to the sharing of knowledge
about the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X.
OS: OS
X set for Mac default in March, Andrew Orlowski, The
Register, 11.23. Apple's Schiller suggests March 2002 as
date when OS X will displace classic Mac OS as
default on new systems.
Opinion: Apple,
Aqua, and interface freedom, Michel Munger, On the
Flip Side, Mac Observer, 10.31. Once a supporter of
interface freedom, Apple now blocks efforts to change
Aqua appearance.
Unsupported
UtilityX 2.0b1 available, Ryan Rempel. New version
designed to be more compatible with future versions of
OS X. No multiprocessor support yet.
Mac
OS X: Firewall at startup, Brennan Stehling,
GreasyDaemon.com, 2001.08.28. "By combining the startup
process with some firewalling I was able to build my very
own firewall system from scratch in minutes."
Is
Classic really worth all that much (going forward)?,
Paul Shields, Business Mac, 2001.08.24. "...a
compatibility environment like Classic only encourages
developers to drag their feet on producing updated
applications."
OS X
for legacy Macs, Ryan Rempel, Other World Computing,
2001.08.03. Unsupported UtilityX out of beta stage,
allows installing Mac OS X on most PCI Macs,
clones.
At least 256 MB
for OS X, Bill Fox, Macs Only!, 2001.07.09.
Testing finds OS X really benefits from at least 256
MB RAM, especially if running Classic mode.
Why
is OS X slow?, Andrew, Ambrosia Software, 06.20. "The
truth of the matter is that there is no single thing that
is causing OS X to be slow.."
The
conversion of an OS X skeptic and Wintel heretic,
Joel Davies, Applelust, 06.20. "I want to trade in my
PCs. Permanently. I'm done with them: If my cute little
Pismo can dust a dual Xeon machine . . . with a
still under construction OS, I want no part of that
Wintel box."
Darwin source less
than open, Scott Atkinson, My Turn, 05.30. Linux, Mac
OS X, and why the Darwin source code is less than
open.
OS
X: They're baack!, Matt Johnston, osOpinion, 05.15.
"I never thought . . . a single platform
. . . would service both the needs of the
seasoned code monkey as well as the needs of my
techno-phobic parents. I've seen that platform now, and
its name is Mac OS X."
Should you run Linux
instead of OS X?, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous
Ramblings, 05.09. Why you might want to run Linux on your
Power Mac or PowerBook instead of Mac OS X.
The
multiprocessor option, Philip Machanick,
Macintelligence, Mac Opinion, 05.09. An introduction to
multiprocessing.
The
best I can say, Ceolaf, MacinThoughts, Applelust,
04.24. Mac OS X better than Linux, but not nearly as
good as Mac OS 9.
Evolution
of the Mac OS X user interface, David Miller,
osOpinion, 04.24. "...if Apple, a company whose
reputation is synonymous with good design, cannot make an
OS that conforms to the industry's specifications for a
proper user interface, who will?"
I'm
furious at Apple, Michael Coyle, ResExcellence,
04.23. "Apple has stopped your ability to customize the
interface of Mac OS X with themes...."
Why
OS X will work, Chuck Cribbs, osOpinion. "Apple has
it right: The interface is where it has to stand
out."
Introduction to Unix:
The buzz words, Eric DeStefano, Mac Metamorphosis,
2/20. Threads, multiprocessing, memory management, and
preemptive multitasking - parts of Mac OS X.
The end of the Mac
as we know it, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, 2/16.
"OS X will change the way you work with your computer. OS
X will act more like Windows...."
Mac
OS X, Gaggan. "The Mach microkernel permits very fine
grained control because of its basic nature."
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