Posts Tagged ‘PC’

Open Source on Mac OS

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

after i sold my Dell d600 which about 5 years old. I got my first mac at 2009 April. as you see, i have use mac for a while.

And my mac is the cheapest mac in the mac store. it is the latest version mac mini.

the photo is took in 04 Beijing. it is the first time I meet Jim’s mac, which is my first time meet Mac computer and system.

macFriends

JimMacSam

Now back to Open source topic. few weeks ago, i got one old desktop which is 7 years old. it is quite old pc. but to install XP or linux. it is still quite fast. To use voipdisacount call my mom who live in China. I have to install XP on the old pc. however, there is only wireless available at my home. The 7-years-old desktop is definitely without wifi. then my old desktop is standalone pc, which is useless. because i want to install voipdisaccount call China. well, Thanksful, I figure out, mac os can easily share internet resource with other pc via cable or firewire. besite that, there is few options allow mac user to hosting web/share file/etc.

accidently, I found that mac os preinstall Apache Http Server and Filezila FTP server(actually, right now I am not sure about their license), anyway, I am very surprised about that. I thought Mac os would supply its own http server or FTP server. These components won more credits than ms.

finally, i found Python also pre-install on mac os. since I go to mac os world, I start understanding people why shift to mac , NEVER BACK TO MS OS.

If I discover more interesting stuff from mac, I would post here later on.