Comments on: 2 months with a Mac http://www.railsguru.com/articles/2006/09/01/2-months-with-a-mac/ Andy Lo-A-Foe's weblog Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:03:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mac Newbie http://www.railsguru.com/articles/2006/09/01/2-months-with-a-mac/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Mac Newbie Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.railsguru.com/2007/08/16/2-months-with-a-mac#comment-223 A few years ago, I made the transition to Mac from Windows, and I've never looked back. I have experience administering Linux servers, so I was right at home with the BSD subsystem. Anyways, to address your problems with Quicktime, you should consider installing VLC. As a former Linux user, I'm sure you're familiar with this software. It works great on OS X, and performs much better than Quicktime--especially if you keep your files on a network like I do. Instead of Azureus, consider installing Transmission. It's much more lightweight, and I've had no performance issues running it in the background. Azureus is a lot bulkier than what I need, and is perhaps to bloated to run well on my computer. I get faster download speeds with Azureus, and my CPU load remains much lower. For a package manager, it is possible to install portage on OS X. I've never done this myself, but if you've got some time, it might be worth looking in to. Portage is very well maintained, so you might have better luck with that repository. Here are some links: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ http://transmission.m0k.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/macos/ A few years ago, I made the transition to Mac from Windows, and I’ve never looked back. I have experience administering Linux servers, so I was right at home with the BSD subsystem.

Anyways, to address your problems with Quicktime, you should consider installing VLC. As a former Linux user, I’m sure you’re familiar with this software. It works great on OS X, and performs much better than Quicktime–especially if you keep your files on a network like I do.

Instead of Azureus, consider installing Transmission. It’s much more lightweight, and I’ve had no performance issues running it in the background. Azureus is a lot bulkier than what I need, and is perhaps to bloated to run well on my computer. I get faster download speeds with Azureus, and my CPU load remains much lower.

For a package manager, it is possible to install portage on OS X. I’ve never done this myself, but if you’ve got some time, it might be worth looking in to. Portage is very well maintained, so you might have better luck with that repository.

Here are some links:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://transmission.m0k.org/
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/macos/

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