Women in Technology

Article:		OS 9, Mine, All Mine
Subject:		Eh? What what?
Date:		2004-07-23 17:19:35
From:		poboxbot
Reinstalling Mac OS X three or four times?! I've been using OS X since the beta, and have only had to reinstall once because of a bad upgrade. I use my machine for development, with uptimes lasting weeks. It's much more stable than OS 9 and on par with the latest Windows offerings.

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• Eh? What what?
  2004-07-24 00:31:39  sanchonevesgraca [View]
  
  
  The uptime for my Mac OS X server is months, often only restarted if there is an upgrade. Similarly for a Mac OS X computer used for software development, restarted more often just because there are more upgrades for this machine. It's completely unfounded to state that the stability of Mac OS X is equiparable to Windows 98. The likely reason for such misconception is that administration of Mac OS X requires UNIX skills to administer the BSD core. which is of course completely different from classic Mac (but is a welcome change). Reinstallation of the operating system (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, etc) or application server software (WebObjects, WebSphere, etc) is only necessary as a last resort and there are many issues to be checked and solved before reinstalling. But if some so-called system administrators are only familiar with package installation and rebooting, then reinstalling is their natural approach...
• RE: Eh? What what?
  2004-07-25 21:56:56  some-guy [View]
  
  
  "The likely reason for such misconception is that administration of Mac OS X requires UNIX skills to administer the BSD core."
  
  Just to set the record straight, you don't need to have any UNIX experience to use, own, or administer a Mac OS X system, although if you do have that experience, it can come in handy on occasion. Though pre-conceived notions about how many UNIX distros work can actually get you in trouble in the beginning - /etc is *not* the center of the universe on Mac OS X! :-)