[cobalt-users] Raq competition from unusual source - Apple!

[Grant Stern <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/15/02 9:56 AM, "cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Paul Jacobs wrote:
>> 
>>> Well OS X is free bsd.....
>> 
>> No, OS X is based on FreeBSD.  It's quite a bit more than FreeBSD, and a
>> very nice operating system.

Actually, its based on the Mach 3 kernel until the summer when they
introduce Jaguar, which will move X to Free BSD lite 4.4

http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/

However, being a desktop user I'm mainly interested in the hardware
acceleration and finder improvements (even though it runs faster than OS 9
ever did).  It is supremely stable.

> Several people from Apple made a presentation last night at the Seattle
> Unix Group monthly meeting, and talked briefly about these new servers.  It
> appeared to me that they were targeting more the CPU intensive clustering
> market than web appliances, if only because they come with ATA hard drives,
> not SCSI, and the machines have two 10/100/1000 NICs which are much faster
> than would normally be necessary on a web server platform.

I agree.  Furthermore, if you read into things, they have great NOC tools,
but did you see a customer control panel?????  Still I think it would be
great to run as a real server, full remote desktop and easy application
installs!  I put Xfree86 on my mac without a hitch, with a mouse and nothing
else.  That's powerfull.
 
> Apple is very big in things like video production, and these boxes seem to
> be aimed at that market.  They don't seem to be aimed at the headless
> server market given that they have some pretty powerful graphics processors
> as well.

They are offering a stripped down version as well, or you can go completely
custom (as with all apple boxes) and save yourself 100 bucks of the list
price.  

Did I mention its got a killer tcsh terminal???  I'm using os x to deploy
web apps and such, and praying on the new dreamweaver release to hurry up.
Any other Mac desktop users on this list? Or am I the only MacRaqian here?
gs
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