[WEB4LIB] also X11 Re: New browser for the Mac

[Roy Tennant]

This may start a religious war, and actually I'm a fan of using 
whatever platform floats your boat, but I couldn't help thinking why 
any techie wouldn't be in hog heaven using a Mac with OS X. You have 
command-line Unix, a cutting-edge GUI, and any and every flavor of MS 
Windows your little heart desires. Using Virtual PC, you can have 
multiple flavors of Windows loaded, and boot into whichever one you 
want to be in at the moment. It runs in its own window, and you can 
still do command-line Unix, the Mac GUI, or whatever else you want. So 
much for the idea that the Mac doesn't run all the software you want. 
There is no computer on the planet that runs more software. So what's 
not to like? Heck if I know, except maybe the price, but given what you 
get it seems like a bargain.
Roy, running for cover...

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Josh Kuperman wrote:

> It seems that MacWorld triggered a bunch of releases.  In addition to
> this and perhaps ultimately though subtly more important was the
> release of X11 http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/ which means that every
> Mac can now add functions as a Unix windows X server along with the
> standard interface. i.e. Every Mac can now be a unix workstation. It
> takes full advantage of the Mac specific hardware and software
> acceleration. So far it has mostly attractic the attention of Fink and
> Darwin users (the unix oriented who also use Macs) but with this
> change I'm hoping that the entire Unix software world will be
> available to Mac users and vice versa. There really haven't been Unix
> laptop workstations for the cost of an iBook until now.
>
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:09:42AM -0800, Roy Tennant wrote:
>> The Mac users among us ("the few, the proud") may be interested to 
>> know
>> about the web browser announced by Apple yesterday at MacWorld. Called
>> "Safari", it is only for OSX users (10.2 is required, but 10.2.3 will
>> provide the best performance). I've only just recently downloaded and
>> installed it, but so far their claims of snappy performance appear to
>> be true. It is quite fast, seems to display most pages I've so far
>> visited quite well, and even helped me snag a bug in my code that
>> Explorer mistakenly forgave me for. So, although it is still only a
>> "public beta", my advice to OSX 10.2 users is to run, don't walk to
>> http://www.apple.com/safari/ and get it. It's at least worth a solid
>> review, and the price is right (free).
>> Roy
>>
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> Josh Kuperman
> josh at saratoga.lib.ny.us
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