The lack of backward-compatible AppleTalk support was the hardest to take. In particular, there is no support for AppleTalk file sharing with older Macintosh computers. The main problems are it is terribly slow, it has no support for floppy diskettes, there are GNU software compatibility issues and it has poor ``classic'' Mac OS emulation. However, once the honeymoon was over, I became increasingly frustrated with Apple's latest OS. I enthusiastically installed the Public Beta of Mac OS X on my desktop machine, a Macintosh Server G3.
A longtime Mac user but a UNIX geek at heart, I was thrilled with the prospect of Mac OS X-a Mac-like GUI on top of a UNIX core. Prior to working with Mac OS X (the X is read as ten), I ran a Mac OS 9/LinuxPPC dual-boot system. I recently wrote about using Mac OS X as my main desktop OS (see ``Mac OS X: First Impressions'' at ). Read the manual before turning your Mac over to Linux. The Trials and Tribulations of Installing LinuxPPC 2000 Q4
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