Tired of waiting for Mac OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’? Make the wait easier with tools that add power, pizazz and some Leopard-like features to OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ in this 4-page article at ComputerWorld.
How to Make Apple’s Tiger OS Roar Like a Leopard
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Eugenia Loli
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I want a 64-bit OS with ZFS and DTrace
Patience, my young padawan…
Install Solaris?
that’s what I was thinking, and if solaris is too hardcore for you, there’s benelix and nexenta, which are easier distro based on the opensolaris kernel.
A MacOS user install Solaris? Surely, you jest?
“A MacOS user install Solaris? Surely, you jest?”
MacUser are NOT so stupid as you think!
Edited 2007-05-18 15:33
Ok I will take the bait. Yes you could install solaris but lets talk about having it all. We will leave out windows I don’t need that flamewar.
ZFS
64 bit
Dtrace
Ok that is grand all in solaris, now lets talk mac
Dreamweaver
Flash
Photoshop
indesign
Acrobat standard
maya
final cut pro
Time Machine data restore made easy (we are talking end user not you and I)
Office ( microsoft or openoffice)
All while still being user friendly yes I know you can add gnome and make it user friendly. I run SUSE I know all about Linux user friendly that I am not knocking. I am however talking about the ability not to configure Video cards, sound drivers, etc… and although linux works out the box on ost systems until hardware vendors really get on board solaris, and Linxu are at a disadvantage.
Don’t quote me Dell, we still have to see what is to come of that in the average joe blow user space.
I am not all pro mac here I am saying you have to give it credit for the things it is doing correct that sloaris from a usability stand does not have,
I’ll take it too. Who needs Dreamweaver and Office when you got emacs and LaTeX?
Seriously now, the idea of “backports” is fine, but — just as it was already said — the benefits of Leopard are not in the fancy Time Machine or anything, but rather in the underlying OS. Still, it’s a useful article.
“Who needs Dreamweaver and Office when you got emacs and LaTeX? ”
Lauch Terminal in Mac OS X than type “emacs”, et voila’ you have emacs in Mac OS X.
Edited 2007-05-18 15:31
Add to your list of applications:
Mellel
Nisus Writer Pro
Bookends
I’m busy writing a long document at the moment, and these applications which are Mac only, are awesome. Apparently. Nisus Writer Pro is being developed with some Leopard features in mind, so that’s almost enough reason to be eagerly anticipating Leopard, as far as I’m concerned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LAXg_UmzTY&mode=related&search=
For one thing, Leopard is not even out yet. There is no way to know how it will compare to Tiger. With that in mind, I must say that Tiger is one fine and dandy OS. Even Vista fails to measure up in terms of appearance and usability. I am presently using an iMac G5 and will probably stick with Tiger until I get a new machine.
http://www.cminusgames.com
When the new “exciting” features of Leopard where announced, at first I thought: “Cool!”.
But the Cool factor lasted for very little time.
Timemachine is a nice (not extremely new) idea but really for me is enough the trashcan…
Spaces.. ok, this is an old feature any X boxes has.. I use VirtueDesktop.. if spaces is well integrated in the OS, ok.. but really is this an innovation?
iChat. Really I have always wanted to use iChat.. and all the cool features of iChat, but most of my friend do not use mac.. and even mac users tend to use Skype or MSN because their friends do not use mac.. (and friends of friends … ok I am looping…)
Dashboard. Everytime I show my MacBookPro I show the “ripple” effect of the dashboard, and I say “They are really useful!”.. Well I DO LIE… I never use them.
Spotlight. The introduction of Spotlight was a real innovation, but the ability to have a quick preview.. it’s feature. They should have added with a simple System Update…
(Said that… and I know myself.. I will buy leopard the day Apple releases it.)
Well, personally I think the most interesting bits of Leopard are for developers (new APIs, development tools) meaning that Leopard sales will be driven by third party apps that will require things like Obj-C 2, Core Animation, etc.
http://www.google.com/search?q=leopard+only+apps&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&…
edit: corrected link
Edited 2007-05-18 12:58
Good point JohnOne
Most people seem to forget Mac OS X –IS– Unix just as much as it is a Mac
Not entirely true, OSX is the fancy gui that you see, Darwin is the underlying os which is ….. well, mostly unix.
All of that having been said, I don’t know if I will be upgrading to Leopard any time soon, I guess I will see how the experience is for my friends that take the plunge when it is available.
somebody earlier noted that zfs and various other sun features would have little to do with apple’s success and I have to agree. As a quite experienced unix/linux user, I have to say I am using my apple more and more and my *nix boxes less and less (for desktop and workstation use, whole different ballgame in the server arena).
The bottom line for me is that while I do know how to make everything work on a nix box… I just got kind of sick of tinkering. Now I use my Mac a lot and 99.9% of the time everything just works. In the rare instance that I do have a problem I don’t have to take it to the Apple store to get it fixed because of my unix experience. I just jump into the cli and fix whatever it is that is broke (usually something i broke) and resume work.
One more thing…… Darwin is truly a bastardized unix… while it works quite well, it takes some real getting used to on the cli, but this is a moot point for 95% of Mac users as they never use the cli (as would aslo be true for windows users).
solaris on your servers….. OSX on your workstations…. DONE… next topic please…
I almost agree with a small modification.
Linux on your web servers (purely for cost couple of dell 1U’s 800.00), OS X servers all internal(database, portals, directory systems, ZFS), os x con the client(productivity, development). Use Open Directory to integrate.
I think an Apple-Sun merge will be the real (and the greatest) solution, even if it’s almost impossible both by Apple’s and Sun’s side.
Anyway, at this moment the tryphcycle’s solution is the best one (Solaris on server an OSX on workstation, even Vatican chose a sort of this).
When I was much younger I was a desktop publisher using a Macintosh. Our Mac systems were very cool looking and the PC people had so much problems just getting fonts to print correctly (1993).
Then I joined a multimedia company (1999) and they used mostly PC’s. I hated it at first. Then I realized the equipment was cheaper. The PC desktop programs became better and took off. It was great to not have to wait for a Mac version of PC software. I was overwhelmed by the PC software options.
Then I ran out of money after going back to school to get a Master’s degree. I switched to Redhat linux (2002) and loved all the free software and enjoyed upgrading my old PC with inexpensive video cards, USB 2 ports, etc. Fedora came out and I installed it instead of buying another Redhat version. Beryl came out and I was amazed at the cool 3D effects. I have eye candy desktop widgets, tons of free software. A friend thought I was running Vista and I laughed at the irony of it all.
Edited 2007-05-21 02:32