After trying to get Pylons+PythonLDAP work on MacOS X I am slowly giving up on this OS as a platform for development. Yes it can be done and it's not THAT hard, but why? For coders Linux just works - everything takes seconds as opposed to minutes. Plus you get a nicer font rendering.
Sorry for the rant. It's just frustrating: I had high expectations for it.
hrm. I do all of my real work on linux and am writing this comment on my linux workstation - so I'm far from a linux basher.
But, getting fonts that don't suck ass takes a lot of dingy work on linux (fedora, ubuntu, arch, you name it - in my humble experience). And even after that work, the fonts are still ugly compared to either windows or osx.
And personally (being an old bsd guy), I find macports makes far more sense than yum (what a pile of crap), apt isn't so bad, but I still prefer a port tree.
Interesting... I haven't tried anything but apt, but everything I've ever need has always been on it, and of a relatively latest version with hot updates.
Regarding fonts, it's subjective matter of course, but you can look at my desktop (I just did a screen shot) with my font settings. Here we go, no text file editing, just adjusted my font appearance in "Fonts" tab in Gnome:
My wife has been envious about this "punchy" font rendering for quite some time (until she got a Mac), but my colleagues at work still are (they're still on Windows).
Yeah, Ubuntu now comes pre compiled with the patent violating good font rendering. I run with no font smoothing and full hint. Much better than when you used to have to recompile the kernel. Doesn't look like Apple is going to sue anytime soon.
Sure Linux just works... but your presentations on a shiny Mac Book Pro will be all the slicker than a boring old Ubuntu Dell. Besides, not staring at an ugly UI all day has its advantages as do the rest of the Mac productivity features.
Boring old Dell? :) Please... Ubuntu runs on a best laptop ever made: black matte military brick-rugged ThinkPad T61 with a keyboard that most desktops only dream of, equipped with duplicated mouse buttons up and down and a mouse "pin" in addition to the touchpad.
This is as close to true mobile productivity as you can get, looks bad ass too.
The only unfortunate feature on it is the "Win" button, but I configured it to do "Expose" and "Ring Application Switcher" effects.
Jesus... did I just write that? I'm such a geek. :-)
Sorry for the rant. It's just frustrating: I had high expectations for it.