Critique of Mac OS X

[Interactivist]

My critique of Mac OS X (http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-3F70-15B8E00-3890A18B-bd3)

Do any of you believe Mac OS X will be capable of running recompiled UNIX apps as the article speculates? If so, this could mean tons more apps.

Any OS X beta developers care to comment?


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[tooki]

You mention hoping Apple would ship the OS color-coordinated to the computer it ships on; actually, Apple already does this on the iBook, slot-loading iMac (look! no hyphen!!) and G4. The desktop background picture matches the computer.

tooki

[FooFooRabbit]

It should run UNIX stuff witha recompile.

So let's see now:

�Classic
�Carbon
�Cocoa
�Java
�UNIX/Linux (with either a recompile or some tweaking)

The only thing MacOS X can't do is DOS/Windows...

Connectix is probably going to take care of that. VirtualPC X perhaps? (I realize that Windows would only run under emulation.)

[markhers]

As a matter of fact, MacOS X Server runs tons of UNIX apps. I have natively compiled versions of apache, mysql, php, fortune, python, samba, and much more on my own MacOS X Server box, and they work great.

You can also create UNIX utilities, and have the full programming power of shell, perl, C/C++, Objective-C, Java, and more!

However, what you won't be able to run is X11 apps (X Window apps) without some third party application to do the X11 protocol/display stuff.

MacOS X will also (reportedly) have POSIX threads, which means some of the more important products which require POSIX threads will run on MacOS X as well.

As it is, MacOS X Server is rock-solid, and really nice. It's not MacOS 9, and it's not MacOS X, but it's a solid solid OS.