[thelist] stupid OSX questions

[Jay Greenspan]

Well, since you asked:

http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/intro.html

This is the party line*.

If you haven't heard yet, OS 9 will run within OS X, so, to
the best of my knowledge, most apps should run just fine
in OS 9.1 if you're using OS X.

There's no need for you to know Unix if you don't want to
learn it. However, if you decide you'd like to grep a little
more, you can open up a terminal and run whatever shell you
like.

I'm a bit biased on OS X. But for a more impartial view, I'd wait
a few weeks and see what the major complaints are among the early
adopters. I've been using it for a about 2 weeks now and have
found some things that need improvement. (mostly unix library stuff
that I can't seem to figure out).

If you get a Mac and you're not liking OS X, you can always boot
to 9.1.

If anyone has questions re OS X and Web development, please let
me know.

-j

*This article and many that will follow caused me to cancel my
trip to Austin and miss my chance to meet many of you evolters.




on 3/26/01 8:04 PM, Erika Meyer at erika at seastorm.com wrote:

> somewhere I think I gathered that OSX is now commercially available.
> 
> I just got a new job and was asked what my dream machine would be...
> well, I'm going to ask for a Mac, but I'm wondering if I should ask
> for OSX or not.  I'm wondering if I will be able to do the
> web-designy things I need to do on the new OS... if so, I'd like to
> try it.
> 
> This is a pretty different OS, right... so will I be screwed when I
> want to use Photoshop, BBEdit, Flash, etc?
> 
> And do I need to be Unix goddess in order to operate the OS?  Or is
> it learnable to the standard Mac-using idiot?
>