Re: tlug: PJE

[Tim Meggs <tim@example.com>]

From: "Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak@example.com>
Subject: Re: tlug-digest V1 #993

> I agree with Steve, but I think, there is another important
> point why I personally feel Linux for the masses is a Good
> Thing.  Assume, we had a luser-fiendly interface on top of
> Linux and everybody is using it.  Then, we don't have to
> argue with people which OS to use at work or such.  We can
> sit at any box, open an xterm, and be at home.

Going off on a tangent ........

This sounds very much like what Apple is working toward with Mac OS X [1]
from http://www.macosrumors.com/OSX.html [2]

* The "Advanced Macintosh Look and Feel" is the key. Mac OS users will simply
see new features added to their familiar interface, and the ease of use that
Wintel users dream about will be backed up by a technology that leapfrogs 
much of the Windows APIs entirely. 

* Will feature BSD 4.4 UNIX on top of a heavily customized Mach microkernel,
based on the 3.0 release of Mach. 

* Although just short of certifiable[3], many POSIX-compliant applications 
should compile on OSX's command line and run perfectly. 

[1]  A while back Jonathan sent a post suggesting that Apple had thrown away
all the work it did on Rhapsody [based on NeXT Step] (a post I never got 
around to debunking:). Where as, it seems to me, that Mac OS X's Carbon API 
is just an API to allow simplified porting of existing apps to take advantage
of the new OS's features, such as preemptive multitasking with protected
memory.    The Yellow Box API [essentially NeXT Step] is still available 
for some of the more advance features like preemptive multithreading.     
(The previous Rhapsody plan put more pressure on the developers to entirely
rewrite their apps for the Yellow Box (essentially unix), since protected mem, 
etc, were not planned for the Blue Box [the Mac OS emulator which was(is??)
akin to how Win 95 handles 16 bit apps]).

[2]  Another Blacklight Media publication along with, the ever popular amongst
TLUG members, slash-dot :)

[3] What ever that means.

tim :)
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