Heh, you don't want to consider yourself being a housewife in computers? :)) But you said that your friends selected MacOs because "it's got unix under the hood, looks great".... That's the professional choice, I'll tell you!
Actually, I don't think that is wrong - computers should be easy to use. I presume that you don't know how do injectors work in your car's engine. Neither do I. And this is good. But if you are a mechanic and you want to work on Apple's car you will find that everything consists of a roseish/shiny plastic things which don't allow hammering/screwing and other actions. But their conform with every National Standard. PS And I'll leave your comment regarding my experience in maintaining Leopard out of scope. Cheers, Dmitri. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it's interesting that people who bag people who prefer Macs > often resort to comments like "oh it's fine for people who don't know > anything about computers" or "it's good for housewives". > > According to Apple, Mac OS X is a fully compliant UNIX: > > "UNIX certification. > > Leopard is an Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the > SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, > and Threads. Since Leopard can compile and run all your existing UNIX > code, you can deploy it in environments that demand full conformance > complete with hooks to maintain compatibility with existing software. " > > So, what is it missing, in your experience? > > Guy > > > > On 24/10/2008, at 11:23 AM, Dmitri Girski wrote: > > > Hi Guy, > > > > I know FreeBSD/Linux quite well to say that OSX's underlying unix is > > just a castrated version of FreeBSD to make it safe for the > > housewifes/designers. > > If they are not happy with Win/Cygwin I doubt that they found a > > happiness with MacOs. > > > > Cheers, > > Dmitri. > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton <guy@> wrote: > > > > > > That's not so true any more. I have lots of hard-core geek friends > > and > > > many of them are moving to OSX because it's got unix under the hood, > > > > > > >
