Another excerpt from the Siracusa's OS X review: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/macosx-10.2-4.html
..................................... The Unix side of OS X has been expanded and improved considerably in Jaguar. In addition to the new gcc3 toolchain, previously available technologies have been fleshed out and new features have been added. There is now a more extensive set of command line tools for dealing with SMB (Windows) file servers. IPv6 and IPSec support have been added to the kernel. The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is now included, opening up a new world of printer drivers to Mac users--provided they're willing to brave the configuration process. Not all of these Unix infrastructure improvements have friendly GUI front-ends in Jaguar, but even those that don't are still hard at work behind the scenes. There have been so many far-reaching improvements to the Unix foundation in Jaguar that it is difficult to complain about any small omissions. On the other hand, the fact that the rest of the Unix layer was so comprehensively updated makes the few stagnant areas all the more glaring. My personal peeve is that Jaguar ships with the same version of Perl (5.6.0) that came with 10.0. Perl 5.6.0 was released in March of 2000--over two years ago. Perl 5.6.1 was released in April of 2001. Perl 5.8.0 was released in July of 2002. (...) Upgrading Perl to 5.8.0 and recompiling all my old Unix software and libraries (apache, mod_ssl, Berkeley db, mysql, expat, etc.) gave Jaguar a chance to shine. Or perhaps it gave the Unix community a chance to shine. As with Linux in its early days, Mac OS X started life as the ugly duckling of the Unix world. Unix software that compiled just fine on the various BSDs, Solaris, Linux, and even AIX had to be manually tweaked to build on OS X. As time has passed, the Unix developer community has added Mac OS X support to their build scripts and configuration systems. The result is a much less painful build process for popular Unix software, almost all of which correctly detects and accounts for the fact that it is being built on Mac OS X. ..................................... ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance." --- Ambrose Bierce
