#Koalacalc replacement how to#

Although to get the middle button working on a mouse with Firefox you have to use USB Overdrive. It's a decent browser but I would switch to Firefox, whose renderer is both faster and compatible with more websites, if they ever got easyGestures working for OS X. My current choices for OS X are: Application Very solid, I use it for my Work e-mail as well.Ī much better price/performance ratio than MS Office and 'good enough' for my home use (which includes writing a book)īuggy and unreliable but I never lose data and it generally worked o.k. Outstanding browser, really something special. There are four types of application that account for 90% of my time at home in front of the computer: My RequirementsĮqually if not more important than the OS are the apps that run on top of it. I wanted an OS that, as much as possible, stayed out of my way and that is what OS X delivers. Finding the firewall settings and setting them the way I liked took about a minute. Setting up an encrypted file system took about a second.

My printer just prints without occasionally disappearing (something Mandrake 9.2 w/CUPS never got right).

My clock correctly sets itself without me remembering to go in and active NTP (something Mandrake now fixes). More then that, everything just seems to work.

OS X, the latest version of the Macintosh operating system, is really pretty.

#Koalacalc replacement how to#

I had enough of figuring out how to run Java, or print pictures or deal with install quirks or never figuring out how to get flash running or living in fear of installing non-RPM software lest it toast my system. Even though the damage was my fault I was sick of driving a car with no seatbelt. In a classic example of 'too stupid for my own good' I tried something very dangerous during my upgrade to Mandrake 10, the Linux distribution I run, and managed to fry my partition table.