We have Mac OS/X running on a PowerBook.
It's a Mach microkernel with a BSD OS on top and a proprietary (grr) GUI on top of that. It runs well. There's a "terminal" application in the Apps folder that can be installed in your Dock for quick access. Opening Terminal presents a tcsh shell. The filesystem is a Mac filesystem but all the stuff on it is layed out like on a BSD system. There are a lot of GNU and other Open Source software tools - bc, ncftp, emacs, openssh. Comes with Samba and NFS and a full IP stack. I routinely ssh into the box as well as out. The down side is some strangeness in how it handles UNIX system info like passwords and hostnames - looks like some kind of LDAP - probably very handy in corporate environments. Having spent a lot of time in ULTRIX, OSF/1 and Linux I am *very happy* with OS/X. It feels like home and there are very few suprises. XFree 4.2 supports Darwin, the core OS/X operating system but I have not yet brought it up. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
