[X-Newbies] Pre newbie curiosity.

[Steven Rogers]

On Mar 14, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Randy B.Singer wrote:

> Brian Durant said:
>
>> I would like to hear
>> some views on OS X and the Darwin/BSD undercarriage. Is OS X as
>> unstable as some people make it out to be?
>
> Normally it is as stable as a rock.  I haven't had a system crash in 
> the
> last 4 years.  I've only had a handful of application crashes, which I
> dealt with by simply re-launching the application and continuing on 
> with
> my work.

Absolutely - I go for weeks at a time without rebooting on a machine 
that I'm work at every day doing everything from movie capture and DVD 
burning to page layout using InDesign to mail and web surfing.

>> I saw a demo G5 at a shop here in Jakarta where the tech
>> guy in trying to find the terminal app crashed 4 programs running and
>> couldn't kill them seperately, but had to reeboot 2 times!!!
>
> If you don't know what you are doing, I strongly advice staying 
> entirely
> away from the Terminal.  In fact, I've found that there is just about
> nothing that you can't do from the graphic user interface.

Its quite possible for a specific machine to become hosed through abuse 
or neglect. I can't imagine why it would be difficult to "find" the 
terminal program, or how you could crash programs looking for it - so 
that tells me that either this guy has no idea what he's doing, or that 
particular machine is messed up (not unusual for sales demo machines 
that are accessible to anyone who walks by).

SR