[Ham-Mac] Are you running OSX on your Mac ?

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 19:51:00 -0500

on 2/01/02 06:52 PM, Steve Muncy at [email protected] wrote:

> I can provide many "identifiable" benefits from switching -- at least for
> me. The bigs ones are (1) STABILITY, STABILITY..... In OSX I have "crashed"
> twice in six months. In OS9 and earler, I was crashing at LEAST for or five
> times weekly. (2) IMHO, a vastly improved interface and Finder. Now
> accustomed to the OSX Finder, I shudder when I go back to the OS9 Finder on
> my son's iBook. (3) FEATURES, like a much improved system preferences and
> location manager;

Absolutely - I have an older iMac running a satellite gateway here - the
only time it's been down since 10.1.2 came out is when the power went off :)

...and also a flood of open source unix software which has been ported, like
the free Celestia - it's stunning !

<http://www.shatters.net/celestia/>

> "Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our
> universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia
> doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the
> solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All
> travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore
> space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft
> only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to
> navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. "

I am running OS9 and Classic for some applications that still require it but
there is no question that OS X is the future - the very near future.

Cheers,
Don Agro VE3VRW

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