Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 11th Oct 2001 17:24 UTC
I went on and wrote a review about MacOSX 10.0.4 a month ago, but it was never finished as I had to fly to France for my own wedding. I came back and MacOSX 10.1 had been released. I scrapped completely the old text, as 10.1 brings some more speed and new features to the system, and restarted writting the review from scratch.
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"Nothing like a filesystem like XFS or BFS, not a good software manager like QNX's, or the advanced (and easy to use) networking features that WindowsXP brings." While a journaling file system would be nice, I haven't had my 10.1 crash on me yet, nor have I had any problems with data loss or corruption on my drives. HFS+ seems to work fine for now, at least for the desktop OS... er... digital hub... that Apple is marketing the OS as. Who knows, maybe Apple or a third party will provide additional file system options in the future. It's still young and Apple just wants to get people using it ASAP. HFS+ just makes the transition path between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X that much more simpler. Also in the good-enough-for-now-category, Apple provides us with the Software Update system preference tool. While limited mostly to Apple sponsored packages, these tend to be the most important to upgrade. It would be nice to have more control of third party application updates like QNX's software manager (which I have to admit I've never used personally so I don't know if it's as good as you seem to imply) or Ximian's Red Carpet for Gnome offer, the current system works fine. There was no comment about it in the review, so I'm not sure if you even tried using it. As far as "advanced (and easy to use) networking features" go, TCP/IP, AppleTalk, SAMBA, and NFS are practically seamless. And the NetInfo system is about as advanced as you can get. I would appreciate it if you could clarify your criticism, as I'm not sure how much more functionality one would want or require for most desktop or server tasks.