>> [Paul M. Moriarty] >>>>> [...] a Mac is a UNIX box with a great GUI that [...] > You left off the part where I said: > "Yeah, yeah, nitpick about Mach, blah, blah, blah..."
I don't find it to be nitpicking. > For what I do with it, the mac is UNIX-like enough for me. ...which is the key here. For someone of whom that's true, it may look like nitpicking, because, for such a person, it is, nitpicking here being the drawing of irrelevant distinctions, and such a person finds those distinctions irrelevant. For anyone who scratches beyond the surface, the situation is very different: I, for example, lost most of an afternoon to one of the sysadmin-POV ways Mac OS X "is not Unix", which makes it hard for me to consider the distinction irrelevant. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
