Free software and the Mac

[Stewart Russell]

Wine runs on a Mac for free, and for a while I ran a small consultancy from
a Mac running Virtual box and XP.

Seconding getting a drive or some sort of network resource to do Time
Machine. It's really great when it just works. It's a bear when it doesn't,
though; it's a tangle of folders and hard links and OS X file attributes. I
wish there were something that simple for Linux; snapshot is good but
fiddly.

(Talking of, file attributes are a big thing on OS X, but not so much on
desktop Linux. You will get bitten by the Quarantine attribute - anything
you download has it set, and even chmod +x won't get around it - and a
couple of minutes reading about xattr(1) will be useful.)

Cheers
Stewart
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