Apple doesn't expect you to ever use fsck -y and, in fact, recommend against it. Apple recommends that you boot from the installation CD and run the disk utility from there. It does a better job of repairing disks and is entirely wrapped in a graphical interface.
As for UNIX and generalized command line phobia, new graphical utilities come out every month that hide all that from you. It's a pretty rare problem that *requires* you to sudo as root from a command line, much less start up in single user mode. Of course, that *may* be the most direct, fastest and cheapest way of doing something, so users in forums such as this may offer "UNIX" solutions, but that doesn't mean it's always your only option. As for OS X not being Apple enough, recall that: Apple has used a number of operating systems in the past 26 years. The Apple ][ (ProDOS?), the Lisa, the Newton and eMate, and the Apple Workgroup Server (A/UX) each had it's own OS. Some of them, at some point, looked somewhat like Mac OS, but they most definitely weren't. NeXT, whose advanced, object-oriented, UNIX-based OS formed the basis for Mac OS X, shared the same roots as Apple. And, if John (Mr Pepsi) Scully hadn't gotten wind of Steve Jobs' plans to retake control of the (first) company he founded, something very much like the NeXT would have been produced with little rainbow Apples on them more than 15 years ago. NeXT has been (re)united with Apple for more than 5 years, now, and I'd hazard a guess that a substantial portion of the current developers have only worked for Apple. Mac OS X is very much an Apple product. Try assembling a group of 100 computer users, Mac and otherwise, and sit them each down in from of a PC running the last version of OpenStep, a PCI Mac running some flavor of OS 9 and a G4 running OS X and ask them the classic Children's Television Workshop question, "Which of these things is more like the other?". I don't think many would have trouble spotting the orange. On Saturday, July 6, 2002, at 05:17 AM, Nick Harman wrote: > The more i use it, the more i realise that it may say apple on the box > but > its nothing to do with the apple we all knew. > > Now my mac is refusing to display its correct ip address, so that i > cannot > get on the net (its a fixed ip). I wont bore you with the progress Im > making > suffice it to say that apple expect me to be familiar and confident with > unix. Im not, thats why im an apple user > > fsck -y > > may not mean much to you now, but when you all get osx it will be as > much a > part of your lives as command option power > > its driving me mad all this. OSX is not suitable for domestic users > without > access to professional unix IT support. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
