h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I installed OS X on my office G4 yesterday, for testing purposes you understand. I backed up all my stuff first, reformatted my drive, divided it into 2 partitions, then made a clean installation of Mac OS 9.1 before installing X.

All that went well, and I booted into X, but as soon as I tried to connect to the network to collect all my backed up files, everything went fruit-shaped. What a pain in the bum. Because our servers aren't running AFP (Apple File and Print) over IP (or something), there's no way for X to see the servers, though it was possible to ping them with the console in X.

So after an hour of messing around with that, I rebooted into 9.1 and went about my work. But this first experience has filled me with overwhelming negative feelings, which I didn't experience with the public Beta. I think the thing with the Beta was that you didn't expect everything to work, but with the final release you kind of do. And it's not that OS X had anything wrong with it, simply that it demands higher-level stuff to be installed on your servers for networking to work.

So I don't know. I'll take another look later, but I'm not keen on it at the moment.