<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Greg Forties <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.forties@gmail.com">greg.forties@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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The real question you need to ask yourself, again, is what you're<br>
going to be using the machine for. If you guys are a Windows shop,<br>
you'll have no end of frustration trying to run open source. If you<br>
aren't, I highly recommend making the switch to one of the Unix<br>
derivatives. Learning a new OS comes with its own set of<br>
frustrations, but in the end I think you'll be glad you did.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>I've done a bit of development on both Mac OS X and Ubuntu. Nothing big, juts a few web apps here and there. It's all about the tools you use. I'm still looking for a good development suite for Mac. XCode just doesn't feel right to me. I'm currently using Eclipse, but the shortcut keys aren't mapped to the Mac style, so it's a bit confusing and I often end up doing a context search instead of a copy, for instance. You may also have issues with directory structure, depending on your development process. If I was really serious about developing, I'd build an Ubuntu box and use that. But the Mac shines in so may other ways that it just makes a better workstation overall. (And if I was going to build a develpment box, it wouldn't have a laptop-sized display either!)<br clear="all">
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