[cfgeeks] DTrace on OSX! Surely you tempt me with that Apple.

[Gil Young]

Kevin P. Inscoe wrote:
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/xcode.html
>
> "Hi I'm a PC. And I'm a Mac. OMG what's that!?"
> "I'm a freakin' Sun now beat it you suit!"
> You too ya bohemian freak!" - My version of a switch ad
>
> "It's through therapy. We are learning how to communicate." - Tony Soprano
>
>   
If there ever was an OS for the geek masses, the ones that are tired of 
beating on Sun/Linux/Windows all day, and want to come home to a simple, 
supported, powerful Unix machine, it is OS X. It can be as simple or as 
powerful as you want.

My powerbook can be a seismograph, a ruby coding system, my main email 
system, etc...

IMHO, you need to at least have one to kick around, the Imac G3's 400mhz 
are ~$100 fairly regularly and will run OS X nicely with 512 meg.  At 
least to start out.  You will be buying more and better once you get the 
experience of the OS. 

My wife uses her 512 meg 400 mhz g3 daily (and has without hardware 
failure in 7 years) and I have the latest OS X on it, as well as xcode 
(developers tools) and X-11 loaded on it, and it print serves for Mac 
and Windows systems, etc..

Recently I loaded Fink on my laptop and put a full up to date ruby/rails 
coding environment on it.  It's not exact, but fink is like Portage, at 
this point fink is a far cry better than the portage available on OS X:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/


I could go on but i'll stop here.