Thank you for your reply, David.
You seem to be answering a question I did not ask, but allow me to
respond briefly in any case: I have been using the operating system
since January, and I am full aware of its line of inheritance as well as
the UNIX 03 certification, and I have no major beef with
I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (November
2007 edition, cf. the Wikipedia article for specifications), and I have
been considering switching to one of the free UNIX clones for some time
now. I understand that Ubuntu GNU/Linux is supposed to work well on this
kind of
