I have a similar, but slightly more informed issue… I am also
considering the powerbook 15, but unlike the folks above i have been
doing all of my developing / system work on gentoo for years. Before
gentoo, it was slackware. Before slackware… hmmm… i think
commador 64. I have never been into windows, and i never plan on
using it. what i am wondering, is whether buying a mac has a shot at
turning me into a mac user. I am planning on getting a mac yes…
but, in the back of my mind, i am also planning on buying parallels
and just running gentoo vm’s for all my devel. maybe old habits die
hard. so, i pitch the question, is rails development that much better
on a mac with textmate, than gentoo with vim. given, i have never
even sat down on a mac, never seen textmate. but, i know linux and vi
like the back of my hand. is it really all that?
On 1/30/07, jason [email protected] wrote:
and just running gentoo vm’s for all my devel. maybe old habits die
hard. so, i pitch the question, is rails development that much better
on a mac with textmate, than gentoo with vim. given, i have never
even sat down on a mac, never seen textmate. but, i know linux and vi
like the back of my hand. is it really all that?
Your talking about one aspect of an entire OS. It’s much more than just
one
text editor and one language. That alone seems to be a bit
short-sighted.
Why don’t you go to an Apple store and play around?
I have been using BSD and Linux since 1997 and for years I didn’t even
use
Xwindows, I prefered my shell and console. That’s changed and now I like
aesthetics when it comes to a GUI. Apple has the prettiest interface
there
is and alot of it is based on gnome and kde, yes I know very tweaked. If
linux had a more pleasing GUI–mostly better font rendering–I don’t
know if
I would ever have bought a mac. To late, I am sold. I use linux for all
my
servers and probably always will, but my workstation is a mac pro and my
lappie is a MacBook, and I am pretty attached to them. In short, do I
think
you will be satisfied? Beyond a shadow of doubt I do, and you’ll
probably
wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.
To me OSX is just like FreeBSD (I know… mach kernel) but without all
the
time spent manually configuring everything and a beautiful desktop.
On Jan 28, 5:01 am, “Alain R.” [email protected] wrote:
Alain
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-mike
- vim
- mysql
- svn
- ssh
- scp
- bash
jeremy
“Here, here!”
Jeremy K. wrote:
> up for Rails development on the Mac. On windows I was using: > 6. other ??? 4. Telnet => iTerm ( http://iterm.sourceforge.net/)
- mysql
- svn
- ssh
- scp
- bash
jeremy
- emacs
- mysql
- svn
- ssh
- scp
- bash, firefox, firebug
Why should I use a Mac with these tools? Stick with (K)Ubuntu or other
linux distro.
zsombor
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Thoughts - http://deezsombor.blogspot.com
hey there
On Jan 26, 11:30 pm, “Greg H.” [email protected]
wrote:
Hi all,
I have a dilemma! I want to go to a very compact notebook for on-the-go
rails coding, however after reviewing what’s available it seems the *MacBook
- is a real contender, but I’ve not been a Mac/Apple user before. Some
advice would be great.*Re Hardware Choice
*(a) Sony Vaio VGNTX47GPW - 11" screen, 1.25kg, bit smaller than MacBook
==> excellent BUT more expensive ~A$3600
I have the 17GPW - its an older version of what you’re looking at -
its a gorgeous machine and the weight and battery life are great. To
make it usable ive had to take windows off of it and put linux on,
however sony havent released all the innerworking of their machine to
the developer community, so somethings are difficult/fickle to get
working well enough to be ideal (suspend/hibernate primarily, but alls
the memory card slot). my lease is up on this in about 12 mths, at
which point unless sony get real and release details needed to get
linux working 100% on this machine, i’ll get the TX47 or (perhpas 67
by then) if not Im getting a Macbook Pro.