E5 Xeons already shipping?

[Andrew Richards]

[Phil Hoppes] “On the drivers, where pray tell, since every driver package I’ve ever gotten from AMD or nVidia are all bundled inside of installers, do I get the magic files that I need to replace?”

InstallEase (among other things) can take an installer .pkg as input and generates an uninstaller .pkg for everything the installer places. It isn’t the centrally OS-managed uninstaller that Windows has, but it is just about as easy to work with if you need to roll back a .pkg installation.

[Phil Hoppes] “You like MacPro’s and you feel a need to defend your position. I’ve moved on from MacPro’s and could not be happier.”

I tolerate Mac Pros because I love OS X. If I could build my own Mac from parts without it being a hack that breaks with every little update, I would. As it is, I have to root for the Mac Pro to soldier on so that there is still a truck in the Apple garage.

Best,
Andy

[Phil Hoppes]

Andy,

Your obviously a Unix wizard. I love it too. In my previous life as a chip designer I lived on Slowaris ( 😉 ) and RedHat. I have to agree that OSX is simply the best OS (unix) with a wonderful GUI. That being said, I had to capitulate to the Borg as I just got tired of having things brake or worse, certain software just is not available (Mari, Mudbox, Motion Builder) so I had to get a different system.

Best wishes and as I said for your sake and others I hope there is a full plate of Crow for me….

[Andrew Richards]

[Phil Hoppes] “Your obviously a Unix wizard. I love it too. In my previous life as a chip designer I lived on Slowaris ( 😉 ) and RedHat. I have to agree that OSX is simply the best OS (unix) with a wonderful GUI.”

The irony for me is I came to UNIX via OS X. Now I find myself ill at ease with Apple’s apparent retreat from anything using the GPL. I love the best-of-both-worlds UNIXness of OS X, but it worries me that Apple seems to be backing away form that.

Best,
Andy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Andrew Richards] ” If I were Adobe and Avid, I’d be looking very hard at porting my products to Linux.”

Stranger things have happened, so who knows. But for now, my comment must be a quiet snicker and *snort*. 😉