Time to Move On

[srg86]

irishmike wrote:
Ahhh, but lets not forget that there was a complete rethink to MacOS in the 1990's (exact date of switch from OS 9 to 10 as a whole evades me currently).   Now MacOS X is really just a pretty face on top of good old FreeBSD!   I always liked the stability of the *nix boxes I worked with.

Actually, Mac OSX is based on the Mach kernel with a FreeBSD layer on top. It is a mess of an operating system IMHO and quite inefficient.

From what I've hard from other people using OSX, it's not as stable as other *nix'es.

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motorollin wrote:

srg86 wrote:
Actually, Mac OSX is based on the Mach kernel with a FreeBSD layer on top. It is a mess of an operating system IMHO and quite inefficient.

It works beautifully IMO, and is less of a mess than (for example) Linux.

Under the hood, there is a lot of overhead with the difference layers.

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motorollin wrote:

srg86 wrote:
Under the hood, there is a lot of overhead with the difference layers.

Who cares? I'd much prefer to throw a slightly faster processor at the OS and end up with something stable (like MacOS) than have something supposedly less "messy" but runs like dog sh*t (like Windows).

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moto

Windows 2000 and XP have never run like dog sh*t for me, they are very stable and highly reliable. I've also never been infected with spyware or viruses.

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Colin_Camper wrote:
I can argue with that! You are accessing the internet are you? Even through NAT you cannot access many websites before you start picking up spyware/malware.  :-(

All it needs is a good firewall (mine is in my router), decent antivirus (I use avast!) and don't look at attachments of e-mails from people you don't know.