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Because its partly proprietary (one can not have a look at things down to the code, securityauditing etc.). Becuase we heard some stuff about how bugs are handled. Because of the bad reputation of apple for environment-stuff.

Because it looks interesting enough to have a closer look to me, digging since years mostly in linux, bsd and unix worlds. Could be something that one can advise to relatives and friends for that linux does just not fit. Because i want to have a look at the different ideas to handle stuff for the user, have a look at the ipv6-implementation, vmware fusion, parallels, the EFI-bios, linux@mac, xen@mac, zeroconf/bonjour, kerberos.

• Why can this thing not log onto my wireless lan? Had to switch WPA2 down to WPA for first connection. After updating WPA2 is usable.
• Nice bright screen. The touchpad is less comfortable than the nipple from the thinkpad. At least enable that tapping the touchpad is taken as a click: go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Trackpad and enable. And use two fingers on the touchpad to scroll.
• Nice small powerconnector and supply. Nice thing, a picture is taken on accountcreation.
• Whats the keykombination for pipe ? (alt+7) For backslash ? (shift+alt+7)
• ichat and adiumx (www.adiumx.com) can connect to my jabber-server.. where are the knobs for settings and servicediscovery, for joining rooms? (At the top of the screen the menu is connected to the application currently having focus!)
• Nice loud speaker, better than the one from the thinkpad t41 here.
• Just plugged my casio camera in and iPhoto grokked all photos, nice.
• Macos brings voice-recognizion stuff in.. not really usable but interesting to play with. And reading texts, but that already worked on my Amiga500 :)
• Getting the infrared remote control to work. Anywhere its written to just 'pair' and 'enable it in security-app' under sytem-preferences. Pairing didnt work, seems like it has to be done right after start here. The ontrollable stuff rocks! Having pictures viewed, dvds, music..

• screenshots Use apple-shift-3 (full screen) apple-shift-4 (part of the screen), shots are dropped on the Desktop
• system-docs http://developer.apple.com/

• http://www.adiumx.com nice messenger, manages multiple accounts
• http://finkproject.org apt-get like binary alternative to darwinports; o install/update/manage software
• http://www.tvbrowser.org the tvguide
• http://www.transmissionbt.com bittorrent client
• http://www.neooffice.org a openofficebased office-suite with cocoa-style
• http://iterm.sourceforge.net an improved terminal
• http://www.videolan.org mediaplayer
• http://opensourcemac.org the place for first software
• http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html little snitch controls outgoing traffic

• http://www.pkgsrc.org best ports-system for mac os x out there
• http://www.macports.org/ other ports-systems

Those ports-systems can compile programs from source including dependencies, bsd- or gentoolike. The first macosx-install dvd contains 'XcodeTools', install it bevore trying darwinports (tried to save space and started piece by piece: gcc (and symlinking), ar assembler, ncurses.. and just installed the whole thing.)

• both do not support usb on mac yet, for qemu there is the Q-frontend

• ..supports usb passthorugh to the guest-os, even usb 2.0 .

• get a second partition onto the drive, the first one has to be reduced. Can be done by resizing (check http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp ), but didnt work for me, after reboot i wasnt able to boot any more. So with macosx-install-dvd i started the diskutil and created 2 partitions and installed macosx then.
• /dev/sda1 is the EFI-partition, sda2 macosx, sda3 for linux
• refind: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

• parallels, xchat aqua, omnigraffle, bootcamp+debian

There are manpages for the commands…