Set up a new Mac Mini in the library at college today, to run Accordance. First real dabbling I'd had with OSX, and I have to say that on the whole it was pretty nifty. Good to be able to use a real shell (given that I'd heard that the default shell was TCSH, which I haven't really used in a good few years. Setting everything up was very easy indeed, system config was intuitive, and for printing (which regular readers will know is a current bonnet-bound bee of mine), it supports IPP, like all modern OSs should [aside for users of a certain Less Free OS].

Only played for a couple of hours, including the initial system setup, but I have to say full marks to Apple, it was almost as simple to setup and get started with as SuSE Linux! Worth saying that the graphical wizardry was very impressive, but much cooler things are just around the corner in the world of X.

A couple of gripes:

• I only seemed to be able to run one instance of the terminal emulator at a time, now this may have been because I hadn't found the right option, but it seems a dumb default
• The transparency on the terminal window didn't work quite right, if transparency was enabled, text that was cleared from the window was still visible "in" the transparency - wierd...