Total OS X Preview

Total OS X Preview. Macworld magazine and O'Reilly team up to produce a special Mac OS X issue. The package includes a beefy edition of Macworld mag, a separate tips and tricks guide, and two full CDs.  The link also describes several books ORA is working on about OS X.[O'Reilly Network Articles]

I used an early version of OS X while I had a iMac in my office, but I didn't really have a beefy enough Mac to make it fly.  As I understand it, OS X wants 512 to 768Mb or more to really work.  Now, I've heard that this all works very nicely on the new iMac 2 ...

Unlike every other UNIX system out there, OS X doesn't have a local X server running the display.  (Having a local X server is very useful if you're trying to manage other local UNIX/Linux boxes.)  I asked several friends who are running OS X whether or not they'd tried to get a local X server running.  They both noted that XFree86 can be made to work.  One of them found it somewhat less than satifactory, and the other hadn't really use it much.  Sounds like it's not quite ready for prime time.