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Wow, this is going well. OSX has restored some of the excitement I remember from my beginning days on the web. Two thumbs up. Proselytizing will now begin in earnest, so watch out if you have to spend any time with me in the near future.
It turns out I didn't have the latest (10.1.1) version of X. I grabbed that this morning after Chris, from the on hiatus mors.ante.servitium, reminded me.
I'm running this on a 400 mhz G3 iMac and speed is not too bad. But it is slow at times, especially when resizing windows. I only have 128 megs of RAM in this machine, so perhaps bumping that will help. I'm sure a G4 would do better, but this is what I have for the moment. In any case, I use Mozilla as my main browser, so I must not care too much about blindingly fast user interfaces. It's funny how if I like a technology on a theoretical (philosophical? ethical?) level I am willing to cut it a lot of slack. Probably there is some loose thinking in there, but that's how it is. On the other hand, the first time I was annoyed by Microsoft or Real I banished them from my world forever.
Back upstairs on the dialup now. Seems to work fine. This is what I had problems with in the public beta. I could never get PPP to stay connected. Needless to say, they've come a long way from the pb to 10.1. Nice work. Cheapest new computer I've ever gotten.
Long day of downloading. For no good reason I'll say what I did.
Backed up a couple of gigs off my home machine (graphite iMac) onto one of the Mac towers in the office. Did some actual math and discovered we only get about 5.5 Mb/sec over the LAN. I'll have to look into that.
Wiped the single partition on the iMac. Made two new partitions.
Installed 9.0.4 (off CD) onto the smaller partition.
Downloaded 9.1 updater from Apple. Installed over 9.0.4.
Downloaded 9.2 updater from Apple. Tried to install - corrupt. Couldn't go back.
Installed 9.0.4 again off CD. Updated again to 9.1.
Downloaded 9.2 updater from Apple again. Installed sucessfully.
Downloaded 9.2.2 updater from Apple. Installed.
Installed 10.1 (off CD) onto the larger partition.
Downloaded developer tools (200+ Megs!) and installed.
Writing this from mozilla 0.9.6 running on OS 10.1. Feels good so far. I got a consistent 60 K/sec from Apple on the DSL. Still, that's not so fast for over half a gig of downloads. Started around noon and am just finishing up now.
I've meant to make this upgrade for some time, but I suspected it would turn into an all day adventure and so I had been putting it off. Glad I finally got it done. I traded emails a few weeks ago with mors.ante.servitium and his OS X enthusiasm sort of shamed me into finally doing it. Thanks. Everything is working well so far. I'll keep you informed on how it goes.