29 May
2003
29 May
'03
2:36 p.m.
Finally for some reason I bought 10.2 about a month
and half ago, and I've
been using it since. The classic environment works really well, and I'm
slowly switching the apps I use most to be native OS X apps. Also, it now
has a usable X-Windows implementation that Apple provides. The main thing
I don't like about it, is that it seems to be a HUGE memory hog!
As in I've apparently got basically all of my 756MB physical memory full,
and 4.5GB of virtual memory used! One thing I do like is that surfing on my
G4/450 using Safari is about as fast as using IE under XP on my 1.6Ghz
Pentium IV!
I like Jag a lot. I don't mind Aqua, although I think it's overkill for an
interface (it really gulps and swallows system resources -- I think the OS
X bloat is mostly from that).
My only complaint is some of my classic AppleTalk servers won't talk to it
(in particular my netatalk-based NetBSD server, ironically a Mac IIci, gets
an "unsupported AFP version" error). However, it works in the Chooser if I
fire up Classic. The worst part was to do filesharing with my Apple
Network Server, I have to use SMB!!! (runs to toilet retching)
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