The unix part of osx isn't locked or hidden any more than it is on fedora (My favo-ditsro wootwoot!) all u do is open a terminal which is on the os x task bar by default and its fully available. There is no sudo or su- to deal with. As long as you are logged into the computer you have full access to the underbelly of the operating system. Im not sure if you can ssh to a mac pc from a remote location, but im about to find out right now
Sanga M. Collins Network Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IT Management LLC 6491 Sunset Strip #5, Sunrise Fl, 33313 Tel: (954) 572 7411, Fax: (435) 578 7411 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Niles Collins Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:04 PM To: Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: Re: [LUG] Also in the news, this firefox week. Ernest there is no humor in that comment what so ever. back to the original topic. Try talking to the average mac user about what their OS really is and they look at you crazy. That is why i feel apple has dumbed it down. OSX is UNIX, i believe that it is a variation on the freeBSD kernel, with a number of other flavors of UNIX combined. Since all Apple did was continue the work of NEXT after they purchased them. If some company started to sell linux computers and setup a fancy GUI that was user friendly, locked away the powerful system commands, and wrote some end user software and started selling their computers. but wait, you have to buy their hardware in order to use their OS even though the base of the OS is designed to run on various types of hardware and systems, and their hardware is nothing special that can't be bought off the shelf. That is why i am happy with the GPL. it prevents this from happening. /end of rant On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Sanga M. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OS-x Unix foundation is not dumbed down. It is just hidden from users. It's a fully functional Darwin with the gui on top of it. When im hacking windows games to run on the mac I often have to go commando, (command line) to run scripts and navigate into the application directories that are cleverly masked from mac users I am downloading both the 32bit and 64bit versions right now. The way things are going this might take all day. for some reason it won't download at more than 300 KiB. when you split that between 2 torrents then it would take all day to download 8.6GiB. My view of OSX is: if you are going to run UNIX, at least run a full featured version, not the watered down crap that is OSX. this may offend Apple users but it is the truth. i feel that they have released a dumbed down version of UNIX. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
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