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From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Fri Apr 6 11:48:09 2001

>I won't run CDE on stockholm. Aside from the usual security holes of having
>RPC services on a machine that isn't behind a firewall, it's a resource
>hog and I hate X anyway. (I do like Aqua, though -- Apple's done a fab job
>on OS X.)

Three weeks ago, I'd have questioned your sanity :^) However, the release
version of MacOS X isn't to bad. The amazing thing I noticed was at least
one app that wouldn't work right under 9.0 & Public Beta seems to work fine
under 9.1 & Release. Namely my old copy of eXodus v6.1.2. Having said
that after about three days of trying to get it to work I'm back to using
8.6 on my G4/450. Why, becuase the B********* dropped classic Appletalk
support so I can't mount the Appletalk shares on my OpenVMS server, and I
can't get it to mount the NFS exports on the OpenVMS server (it'll mount
them from a Solaris box, and the Solaris box will mount them from the
OpenVMS box). Yeah, I'm more than a little pissed at Apple, but you're
right it's pretty good. Though I also seriously prefer the Platinum
interface.

BTW, am I the *ONLY* person that *LIKES* CDE?

                        Zane
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| Zane H. Healy                    | UNIX Systems Administrator |
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| healyzh_at_holonet.net (alternate)  | Classic Computer Collector |
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