The strange thing is that for a long long time, there were no equivalent applications under Mac OSX to meet their Windows counterparts. I first noticed this when moving across to Mac OSX, and found that many of the ones I could find were unfinished Java based ones (that ran alright, but had clearly been written under Windows or Linux and made assumptions about file paths etc.)
Now that Mac OSX has a plethora of applications available for it and an army of developers thanks to the meteoric rise of iOS and Obj-C developers, Linux sticks out even more than it used to with regard to unfinished/missing apps. Having said that, I only use compilers and development tools + a browser on Linux, so I see nothing missing in that regard!
If you're using a Microsoft infrastructure, you'll find that there are many missing parts on both Linux and Mac OSX; a Microsoft infrastructure suits Windows best. I even found with Cisco gear that their Mac OSX applications were a bit feeble and feature-lacking in comparison to their Windows apps, so platforms appear to be playing catch-up alot, with this always being the case for Linux (and it always has been).
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Re: Java developer
Date: 2014-05-20 12:56 pm (UTC)Now that Mac OSX has a plethora of applications available for it and an army of developers thanks to the meteoric rise of iOS and Obj-C developers, Linux sticks out even more than it used to with regard to unfinished/missing apps. Having said that, I only use compilers and development tools + a browser on Linux, so I see nothing missing in that regard!
If you're using a Microsoft infrastructure, you'll find that there are many missing parts on both Linux and Mac OSX; a Microsoft infrastructure suits Windows best. I even found with Cisco gear that their Mac OSX applications were a bit feeble and feature-lacking in comparison to their Windows apps, so platforms appear to be playing catch-up alot, with this always being the case for Linux (and it always has been).