As I tweeted yesterday, I received my new MacBook Pro. I was a bit skeptical on choosing this computer being a Linux user/developer for quite some time now. I thought it was worth giving it a try anyway. Besides, I still use my old Powerbook; as my home server since I've always liked the Mac hardware.

For the time being, I'm not running Debian in it, but I will install it sooner or later, for now, I've reached some stability and productivity on the current setup, I'm running MacPorts, which brings all the nice open source goodies to Leopard, Vimperator, TwitVim and all sort of terminal scripts to make Terminal.app more delightful to work with. We'll see how it goes.

Hard obstacles that I've found so far that were a pain to deal with:

• More than one Ruby and RubyGems installation (the base system, and the MacPorts installation).
• MySQL on MacOS (specially hard if you are trying to make all work from MacPorts).
• Getting used to "Spaces". I like one row with up to eight or ten columns. Apparently, you can only have up to four column spaces.
• GNOME-Terminal vs Terminal.app.
• CA certificates to make Mutt (or fetchmail) work properly with SSL (post to come).
• MacOS' postfix.

All of this is obviously workaroundable, but being a Linux dork it sometimes takes more time