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Re: Mac OS X 10.5: X11 Documentation/Release Notes
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Re: Mac OS X 10.5: X11 Documentation/Release Notes


  • Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.5: X11 Documentation/Release Notes
  • From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:20:18 -0800

On Nov 10, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:


On 10 Nov 2007, at 20:04:10, Ben Byer wrote:

On Nov 10, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:

I realize that the "'Chinese Orange'- and Gray- Walls" of documentation published by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) are a thing of the past. It would be nice if Apple could publish, at least, documentation like the Release Notes, Administration Guide, and Users Guide published by Berkeley Software Design (BSDi) and to a lesser extent SuSE (SuSE/Novell).

I think Apple prefers the "Everything Just Works" way of doing things. That ... tends to break down when they don't.

Now you've done it, Ben. "Everything Just Works" is great marketing hype. The only product that I've used that this phrase might describe is BSD/OS. Mac OS X is approaching the mark but hasn't reached it yet.



(insert missing ':P')

Like I said, it works when it works, but it doesn't when it doesn't.
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer

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