Hello darkness my old friend

Re:Hello darkness my old friend by dmpayton on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @08:16PM (#274591)

I completely sympathize with Mark. I was an Apple hater for years, and was ecstatic when I discovered Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) and could move away from Windows as well.

Then a good friend of mine convinced me to get an iPhone. I was hesitant at first, but after trying one I decided to go for it.

Then I got a job where my choices were a MacBook Pro or a Dell with Vista. Three guesses which one I took (the first two don't count).

I must admit OS X is really nice, and full Unix compatibility is a huge plus. Still... sigh

[Edit: missing period]

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Re:Hello darkness my old friend by elai on Wednesday August 13, 2008 @05:01AM (#274822)

Full unix compatibility without easy, comprehensive & working BINARY package management (like debian, or archlinux) is still a big pain in the ass. Setting up something like the mysqldb library, mod_python, apache, and django can be a 1 hour production vs. the 5 minute production that it is on linux.

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Re:Hello darkness my old friend by dmpayton on Wednesday August 13, 2008 @12:33PM (#275121)

Agreed, package managers are a godsend. That's why there's http://www.macports.org/ and http://www.finkproject.org/

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