Losing PPC apps? I'm still struggling with not being able to run my classic mac apps anymore.

I wonder if saving files every hour isn't a bit of overkill, though. Especially taking into account the fact that SSD lives are measured in writes.

Depends on what SSD manufacturers call a "write". If touching a block (even slightly) is a write, then a 100MB update could not be so far away from a 100kB word document, depending on block size.

Lion seems very stable however

Lion feels like the same upgrade step as Snow Leopard was from Leopard.

So mabye when I have the money I can get a new macmini and a new OS.

Another article full of prejudice, hostility, lacking facts and context.
Keep it up osnews.

You're sinking more and more by the day.

Actually, what would be perfect is Apple took Solaris and just grafted the OSX UI on top.

Ok, that "kill me now with this scrolling" guy exaggerates a *lot*

Now you are saying they won't support 3 years old machines

It's like the iPhone again, I bought that piece of sh** thinking I could use it for years, now one year later most apps run like crap, including Apple's ones

To ease the transition to iOS on all platforms, whether you like it or not.

They're the most evil company in tech, because they're actually attacking the most important think involved: the minds of 'users' and programmers.

*insert horrible, possibly disgusting comment about Steve Jobs*

This means you can set up any Mac you already own as a server, without having to buy a separate package.

I'm not criticising _you_ (I hate how everything has to be explicitly stated because people infer whatever they want on the Internet), but if UNIX tools are your primary interest, what's the main draw over setting up a BSD?
Specialty third party applications?

I've been on Linux/BSD for a few years now, and I don't think I've installed anything from outside the archives in 2 years. (Well, some old video games, but that's just data files in my home directory, using engines from the archives...)

Again, I just get curious when someone who's seriously into *nix tools and programming uses OS X as their primary OS. It's really common in the Common Lisp world, but that's largely a historical oddity (there were/are a number of very good commercial/free implementations for Mac OS/OS X).

There are too many proprietary apps not available for Linux/BSD to use it as a main desktop for me. You'll never get around that, until the major software developers recognize Linux or BSD as worthwhile.

BTW, I hear there's an option to disable the inverted scrolling. In Sys Prefs->Trackpad->"When using gestures to scroll or navigate, move content in the direction of finger movement". But I can't confirm because I might be subject to NDAs

I HATE that you can't have the exact same programs in the exact same places each and every time you run the OS.

Oh, sure you can in Windows if you open up the apps in the exact same order each time AND Explorer doesn't hang/crash.

I've used over a dozen unique OSs since 1979 and I would NOT pick the Taskbar.

Hysterically at the "full screen" part -- hey Apple, nothing like twenty years late to the party?

Of course that -- as noted by another poster, it's completely broken/annoyingly useless on multi-monitor systems.

Funny how the OS who used to do multiple displays best has been lagging behind Win on that front since 1998.

AIM circa 1997"

just show me a file tree