Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Please, stop with the FUD! OS X is in large part open source. It runs APACHE WEB SERVER! That's OPEN SOURCE!!!!! BSD UNIX - open source. Java is standard and cross-platform. Networking is open source. It's Kerberos is open source! It's standard graphics format is PDF! Audio is MPEG-4. Get it? Windows is proprietary. Java proprietary and Windows-only. IIS Web Server - Proprietary. Kerberos Proprietary. Networking - Open Source - lifted wholesale from BSD UNIX. I used to serve my web pages off my home G4 in OS X and Apache and I never noticed any performance hit whatsoever. Not that my site was high-traffic. But my computer served up the web pages very quickly, even when I was running some heavy duty Photoshop filters and such. Graphics is BMP. Audio os WMF. Proprietary. On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 11:32 PM, Jeff S wrote: > That's okay DDavid; I catch flak from the Denver Leica > gang for my ambivalence about OS X: I get particularly > grumpy when called upon to use it for for say, serving > up web pages or an ftp site--not a good use for this > rather pricey hardware and proprietary OS, IMO. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman... neither works. - Will Rogers. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html