Re: TI-H: The End of the Holy War

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Re: TI-H: The End of the Holy War


I haven't posted for a long time. Oh well. I have MacOS X Dp4. Quite 
nice. It runs FreeBSD and has a terminal if you want it. Otherwise 
everything is completely GUI. Still Boots into GUI and everything. 
The common user will never have to see the command line unless they 
wish it and as it stands now only the Administrator has access to the 
CLI. OS X is completely Preemptive. If you have old Non-carbon 
Compliant Applications OS X will boot a shell known as Classic That 
contains its own memory space. Classic's memory space is within the 
OS X Memory space. Any app that crashes in classic will NOT bring OS 
X down and as far as I can tell if an App crashes in Classic and 
would nominally not take the system down you can take the app out 
with a Force Quit (which has been modified a lot).

Soon there should be X-Windows for OS X. That may be amusing ass we 
can see how many shells we can get running at once.

At approximately 12:37 PM -0600 on the day Earth people call 6/4/00, 
C.Ulrich said something about Re: TI-H: The End of the Holy War:


>Hehe, well that's a pretty good story. Mine's a little different, 
>though. I was
>once a Micro$erf also, what with all my MODs, MP3s, IRC, and the 
>ritual game of
>Quake every night. But all of it started to get... boring. I didn't know what
>to do next to achieve a higher level of geekdom! I tried learning C++, but the
>two textbooks I had were nowhere near good enough for self-teaching purposes.
>Then I began to hear about Linux on the net and how it was 
>unix-based and soooo
>much better than Win95. "Better than Win95?" I thought. "I guess the only way
>to find out is to see for myself..." And so it went. After a few months of
>dicking around I finally managed to get it up and running. I didn't know what
>the hell I was doing, but dammit, I was running Linux.
>
>And now, I have two computers. One laptop which is entirely Linux and another,
>powerful-ass Athlon that dual-boots between Linux and Win98. (I need Win98 for
>games and the occasional CDR burn.) But now that I know Linux (and to an
>extent, UNIX) inside and out, I couldn't be happier. And my opportunities for
>further geekdom are unlimited. Thinking of checking out FreeBSD next. :)
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