December 24, 2003

  • So, while waiting for gentoo to recompile (and in many ways because I was waiting for it to recompile), I installed Mac OS X 10.3 on my iBook.

    I like it a lot. I like being able to hit F11 and have the windows zoom out of the way. I like the lack of transparent window titles. I don't like the 'brushed aluminum' Finder windows. I like the improvements to Mail.app and Apple Help. I like the huge alt-tab app switching icons. I'll get used to the oval-oid item selection.

    But what I really like is that it ships with distcc on the Developer's Tools CD. Because I'm a nerdy geek. W00t! Unfortunately, Apple's version of gcc isn't compatible with gentoo's version, so I can't use my Mac in a distributed compile for gentoo. Durn.