Re: [tlug] XFS on MacOS X?

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On Thursday 15 May 2008 06:37, David Shanahan wrote:
>A different issue but Leopard wont even run off a UFS partition
>anymore.

Did many people even run OS X on UFS? I first tried OS X when 10.1 came 
out. And i tried installing it on UFS, (naively) thinking that since it 
was a Unix system, a real Unix filesystem would be more appropriate. 
But i quickly discovered a number of issues (which i don't recall very 
clearly anymore--that was a few years ago), each of which on their own 
were but minor annoyances, but taken together made me think that 
although it technically *could* run on UFS, it really wasn't designed 
to. I reinstalled with HFS+ and the little problems went away. I was 
left instead with all the problems that 10.1 had regardless of how it 
was installed. I think 10.0 was alpha quality, and 10.1 beta. 10.2 was 
the first OS X i considered useable for regular use, with 10.3 being a 
major improvement again.

These days i have a MacBook running OS X 10.4. But my desktop machines 
run Debian Linux. I like in OS X how if you are doing something that 
was considered by Apple, it works *really* well. Stray outside the 
sandbox and it isn't quite as fun though. The experience doesn't 
degrade nearly as quickly as on Windows, but that's not saying much. 
For most things i still prefer Linux, primarily because i've got the 
GUI configured in a way that is extremely efficient for me. One of 
these days i'll buy a copy of OS X 10.5 and try out the "spaces" 
virtual desktop feature; maybe i can approximate on OS X my environment 
on Linux. It would take a lot of tweaking to get OS X to that point 
though, and with each passing year i find my interest in endless 
tweaking to wane just a little more.

Of course then there's the whole openness issue. I vastly prefer an open 
source system. But i am not nearly as strongly opposed to proprietary 
software as RMS; i don't mind using proprietary software when it is the 
best tool for the job. I like my Mac for its Japanese support and for 
video editing and managing my photos. I like Linux for everything else.

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