Re: Torvalds says: Mac OSX is crap...

From: Ross A. Finlayson (raf@tiki-lounge.com)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2001 - 20:34:54 MDT


Michael Lorrey wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/18162.html
>
> Linus Torvalds has spoken. Apple's MacOS X, he says, is "a piece of
> crap".
>
> To be fair, it's actually MacOS X's kernel, Mach, which the Linux
> creator so dislikes. The quote comes from Torvalds forthcoming
> autobiography, entitled Just for Fun, and continues: "[Mach] contains
> all the design mistakes you can make, and manages to even make up a few
> of its own."

It even runs all the old Mac applications, "Mac Classic."

The icons are good because they are vector art so that they can be
infinitely scaleable. It has a UNIX prompt, but X-Windows is a separate
application. It's configured. I installed it by booting from the Mac OS X
CD-ROM on an Apple PowerBook.

It's kind of slow. Yet, it has good performance for a personal computer.

It has some bugs. For example, mine has some power adapter and system
runtime bugs. It appears to have several clocks.

It's also kind of fast.

Ross

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