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Originally Posted by eviltang
Okay, I know Windows and Linux and I am wondering what the learning curve for Mac OSX is. I am thinking of getting a Laptop, and I am deciding on what brand/os. Any input?
Is there still a "Command-Prompt" or "Bash Shell" within OSX? I am a command-line-commando, and am not sure if this is available.
I will be using photoshop, dreamweaver, ssh, ftp, and the usual productivity suites (i.e. word, wordperfect, write).
Thoughts?
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OSX is like having a linux or BSD machine at your fingertips, with apples amazing user interface. Install the developer tools, and X11 and you can compile and run any *nix application out there. You can run X11 in rootless mode so that all X11 apps will display on your apple desktop with a window manager that works and looks like cocoa. You can also use it in root mode where you have a full screen dedicated to X11, you can run your favorite *nix desktop enviroment (KDE,Gnome, WindowMaker etc).
It comes preinstalled with a great terminal app, bash prompt, and of course, openssh. The open source developer world has really rallied around OSX and almost all usefull open source apps i find work great on it, and have tons of support. You'll really be amazed at how much OSX is part of the linux/unix community now.
Hell, they have ported WINE to OSX intel, so its possible to run many windows apps natively.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06...over/index.php not to mention you can dual boot with XP now. Gentoo linux is booting on the intel macs now, and its will be a short while till the other distros follow suit.
Mac is simply the platform now with the most software options, period. I'm loving my new macbook
