[ahmedramzi]

I am experienced with PC's software & hardware troubleshooting & maintenance since 5 years. Several days ago, I've found a very good job as an IT manager.. the problem is that the computers there are PC's, MAC's & IBM computers.. which I never tried before!

My question is: Is it nearly the same to maintain a PC based system, and IBM or MAC system?

Also, what is the best resources (pdf or word) that I could learn how to troubleshoot those two systems with?

thanks

[Aaron]

I know that Apple built the MacOS OS from BSD (a Unix Operating System) but their GUI probably covers a lot of that up.

[IcemanND]

MAC hardware troubleshooting is much the same the software is a whole different ballgame. And many software problems present themselves as what would be considered hardware problems in the pc world. Boy is it fun!

[ahmedramzi]

how can I simulate MAC OSX?
I have the MAC OSX 10 CD's, and I have tried Virtual PC & VMWare, but it seems that they do not have support for MAC based systems..

[IcemanND]

Only on a MAC to my knowledge

[utln]

The "Classic" OS (up to 9.2.2) is different from OS X in many ways. Will you be supporting both OSes?

OS X is the result of Apple's purchase of NeXT. NeXT ran on the x86 platform. We know that Apple has maintained the x86 version (codename: Maklar) along with the PPC version of the OS. I forget who and where, but an Apple rep let information about Maklar slip at a press conference. Perhaps this is why Apple has been more willing than ever to rattle Microsoft's cage (i.e. Safari, Keynote).

OS X is based on NetBSD. The "Open Source" version of OS X is called Darwin. Darwin does not come with a GUI or drivers for much of anything. Right now there's no product I know of that will allow you to run OS X as a VM.

[IcemanND]

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OS X is the result of Apple's purchase of NeXT.

Steve really had a good scam going on this one. Comes back to Apple and they buy his old company mostly defunct too. What a deal.

[utln]

That was the only way I think he would have come back. Gil Amelio (sp?) ran the company into the ground. Apple spent all kinds of money trying to build their next-generation operating system and it became the most spectacular vaporware I've ever seen. Apple blew years and many millions on an OS that they eventually threw away (codename: Copland). NeXT was rock solid, ran on RISC processors and was more of an operating system that Copland ever would have been.

The scam is that the CEO of Apple and the CEO of Pixar are one in the same. This means that they'll get companies to port their high-end video editing software to OS X because that's what one of the biggest names in animation uses.

As a long time Mac user I'm happy to see Apple doing good. As a long time Mac user I can tell you kwality kontroll has gone to hell since Steve came back.

[IcemanND]

kwality kontroll as you put it has had its ups and downs but I agree its at its lowest now. Ireally wish they would quit making monitors/things with monitors in them.