comp.sys.mac.advocacy

Mayor of R'lyeh wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:22:15 -0700 (PDT), Dave Fritzinger
> wrote:
>
>
>>Interesting article in Business Week.
>>
>>http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080410_206881.htm
>>
>>"The 20-year death grip that Microsoft has held on the core of
>>computing is finally weakening--pried loose with just two fingers. With
>>one finger you press "Control" and with the other you press "right
>>arrow." Instantly you switch from a Macintosh operating system (OS) to
>>a Microsoft Windows OS. Then, with another two-finger press, you
>>switch back again. So as you edit family pictures, you might use Mac's
>>iPhoto. And when you want to access your corporate e-mail, you can
>>switch back instantly to Microsoft Exchange."
>
>
> I've been saying for months that Apple is missing a Golden Opportunity
> by not making the fact that any OS can run on Macs the centerpiece of
> an ad campaign. It might not sit well with the Mac Faithful but it
> would certainly make a lot of other people take a second look at Mac
> HW.
>

You are quite correct. This was the main point I used to determine
which hardware and os to purchase. Now that I have VMware on my iMac, I
run Solaris 10 in a virtual machine. I've tried various flavors of
Linux, but it seems that Suns Solaris works the best. At first I made a
stupid booboo and after installing SunStudio12 I put into the system
profile the PATH=/usr/opt/SunStudio12/bin. Needless to say I was in a
hurry to try out Suns compilers, but noticed that nothing came up
correctly. Fortunately, the snapshot function of VMware saved a lot of
hassles and rolled back to a previous state and corrected my error.