On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:02:27PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:39, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > I am regularly dealing with customers, and specifically developers that > > > > are running Linux+PostgreSQL on the server... but their desktop of > > > > choice is MacOSX. > > > > > > And to follow up on this, I just saw that Tom Lane, Buddha guru of > > > PostgreSQL runs a Powerbook ;) > > > > Now now, he didn't say it was his. Could be his mother's... > > > > (ducks to avoid tomato thrown by Bruce...) > > I remember he got some type of Mac laptop while he was at Greatbridge, > but when they went bust, the parent company didn't know what to do with > a Mac, so they let him keep it. (I didn't use a laptop at the time.) > Might be the same one. > > Anyway, it would make an interesting reason for choosing a Mac. I can > see the commerical now. :-) > > I actually use a laptop running XP. I got it for the Win32 port, and > because I use putty/ssh, Mozilla, and Gaim 99% of the time, it doesn't > matter what OS I use. I could install a unix on it, but there seems to > be no need because all my unix work is done on my server via ssh. I was prepared to hate OS X and it's silly one-button-ness, but I bought a 17" powerbook anyway, because to me that's what a laptop should be; plenty of screen real estate but also thin and light. Then I started using OS X and came to realize (to quote from Jurasic Park) "this is unix, I know this!" Granted, when it comes to administration it's a fair bit different, but I think OS X is about the best desktop environment a unix geek could ask for. All the tools you've grown accustomed to are right there and work just fine. No need to even ssh anywhere for them. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
