I’ve Switched
Apple, Hardware, OS X, Unix February 25th, 2007Yes, it’s true – I’ve switched to a Mac running OS X as my primary home workstation. For the past few years I’ve been running NetBSD on sparc64 systems, but felt that it was time for a change. Something in particular that’s really annoyed me is that Firefox still isn’t stable on 64-bit big-endian platforms – I had to resort to running it on a NetBSD/alpha system and displaying it locally.
It’s still early days, but I’m impressed with how everything Just Works under OS X. It’s not quite a traditional Unix system (NeXT always was a bit different, NetInfo for example), but a Mach kernel, a mostly-FreeBSD userland and a pretty GUI is good enough for me 
Of course, I’m still keeping my Ultra 60 running NetBSD as my second head – just need to get Synergy configured so that I can talk to both machines with a single keyboard and mouse.
February 26th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Oh, how the mighty have fallen…
March 12th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Although I may have dalliances with other operating systems, you can have my Sun running NetBSD when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands