Computer OS preference

Hey, Snow Leopard's coming out very soon. With a server version, too. Hmm.

 

Ah yes, I can see it now...

Ubuntu Server 9.04 Free
Windows server 2008 $139.99
Apple Snow Leopard server $483,969.14

 

Funny how this poll (though not statistical) shows a correlation between Prius geeks and OSX users. Yeah... I have an iMac and I love it. Even have my snow leopard on order for Friday delivery.

 

$499 for unlimited number of seats.

Apple - Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard

 

Snow Leopard coming from Apple.com this weekend! Come on baby!

I already have the RTM Windows 7 on a VMWare virtual machine (I have an MSDN subscription and do Windows development on my Mac, ironically), and it doesn't impress me as much as OS X.

Vista/Server 2008 security drives me nuts. It's endless nags and restrictions.

 

WHich is why I'm happily single

Oh, wait a minute. Are you talking about something else?

 

From everything i've read, Snow Leopard works just fine, but it's missing the must-have wow factor of a lot of their other upgrades. It makes sense - this one was mostly a behind the scenes clean up and improvement of their code, making the OS smaller and faster, not really focused on delivering new features.

For $29, it's an upgrade i'll get the next time i'm near the apple store, but i'm not running out today to buy it.

 

Are there any 'backwards compatible' issues with Snow Leopard that you know of? Any need to upgrade all your other software and drivers to the latest and greatest?

 

Apple knowledge base article re incompatible apps:

Mac OS X v10.6: About incompatible software

Apple knowledge base article re supported printers and scanners:

Mac OS X v10.6: Printer and scanner software

 

Some Windows users report that they had to do extensive upgrades to use Snow Leopard. Usually removal and replacement of the computer was required.

Tom

 

I had two issues that were easily resolved. When I first tried to run Quicken 2007 a dialog box popped up telling me that Rosetta was needed, and I installed it. The 2nd issue was that I had to reinstall a VPN client. Other than that, works great.

I upgraded to Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09 on a Macbook Pro and 24 inch iMac, with the Family Pack Box Set.
:ranger:

 

Why isn't CPM on the list? :noidea:

Where are the TRS-80 and Amiga 500 users?

 

So, are you saying that this version is more like a service pack rather than a new release? By the way, there was an ad on the radio of a local Apple (MSP) shop offering it for $24 this weekend.

Of our few remaining Macs at work, this is required to run ANY version of OSX, they're being replaced with PC's (HP not Dell).

Now you're talking a REAL OS

 

Yeah, but my wife gave me three beautiful children (and counting), which is something no OS ever did!

From what I've seen, that's mostly true (and actually, I think Windows 7 is pretty much the same way [feels like Vista to me]), but I actually respect that the company is taking a break from new features to improve quality and do a little cleanup. Speaking as someone who writes software for a living, I can say that it's a real rarity that you get to circle back and improve existing verbose/inefficient code as opposed to institutionalizing it and pushing on with new functionality build on top of the relative mess.

 

Just got my Snow Leopard delivered Fed Ex and installed this evening. Exploring it now. Seems nice!

 

Awesome. Thank you. So, Parallels 4 should work fine - hopefully XP and my windows-only software will too.

 

Bill Gates is a genius: He hired complete morons to write an OS, then he convinced the computer-illiterate executives of virtually every corporation in the world to make it their standard. In so doing he created an entire industry of anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall software to make the thing halfway secure half the time, and created jobs for an army of computer techs to keep the damn thing halfway running. He is the patron saint of scam artists everywhere.

My first computer was a Kaypro 2X. CP/M was brilliant, If Digital Research had gotten the contract to produce the OS for the original IBM PC, cyberspace would be clean today. I downgraded to DOS on a PC-AT clone when the floppy drives on the Kaypro stopped working.

 

Actually, he stole the first OS (PC-DOS) from [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall"]Gary Kildall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame], then he hired a bunch of people to copy (badly) Mac OS. So I would say he is the most successful software pirate ever.

 

Those were definitely the days. My first was an Osborne portable (the predecessor to notebook computing even before the Compaq portable). I still think if the 68000 Motorola had won out over the 8086 where we would be today. True multi-tasking and parallel processing, probably. I also gave up on real computing in the mid-80's and went with an AT I built from scrap parts. I came back to an Amiga in 1990 and finally abandoned that platform when Amiga died. As late as 1991 the Commodore 64 was still the biggest selling computer on the planet due to the huge 3rd world market.

 

How about RSX-11/M? Now that was a real operating system. I used to be an RSX-11/M system programmer, so I knew it inside and out. Installation required a "system generation" where the entires OS was assembled and linked from source. It used to take about eight hours on a PDP-11.

Tom