By bloid
via blogs.sun.com
Published: Oct 16 2007 / 09:28
I loved Tom Yeager's article The next best thing to OS X. As several people have noticed at my talks over the past few months, I no longer carry a Mac laptop. As much as I love the Mac's eye candy, it really hasn't been keeping up as a developer's machine - their attention has clearly been elsewhere. Meanwhile, the Solaris folks have made huge strides in Solaris's usability on a laptop with recent Nevada builds: the latest Gnome is quite lovely. Firefox, Thunderbird and Silverlight kick ass. The new installer is totally slick. The nwam (network automagic) service makes network hassles almost totally disappear. And Java, NetBeans and Glassfish go like the wind! It's amazing how fast things run.
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MadACR replied ago:
If the title where, 53rd thing better than OSX it would be more accurate. Especially with the references to networking tools. Solaris was my OS of hate in college. I graduated to OSX in the business world for my first computer related job. An administration night mer. Especially with tomcat and java implementations.
I am happy to be working with Ubuntu now. It is stable, with a relatively low memory foot print. It has top notch support with linux, and it meshes well with cost of business. After all, anything MAC considers inovative, Linux has been doing leaner, meaner and faster for years.
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