I run OSX, and it is pretty amazing. OSX is BSD based, command line and all.
I run MySQL, PHP and Apache on my OSX box as a development server and it works pretty much the same as it does on our Linux servers. With OSX I personally no longer feel the need to keep a linux box running at home. <flame shields up> Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:36 PM Subject: [TriLUG] Mac OS X is UNIX? > I was perusing slashdot and come upon the following article: > > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-832650.html > > The article is an interesting one and it is about Apple's Mac OS X. > Apparently OS X runs UNIX at it's core but the article aslo claims > that OS X is a real UNIX OS. > > Is anyone out there running Mac OS X? If so can you redirect your > UNIX displays back to your Mac without 3rd party software? Can you > mount drives? And is there an honest-to-goodness command line > interface in OS X? Could Mac OS X be good enough as a UNIX machine to > replace a Linux desktop? > > I haven't used a Mac in a LONG time but if they want to run UNIX on > their desktop and not just at the core of the OS then I may have to > seriously consider getting my hands on a Mac. > > I've heard about Yellow Dog Linux which can run on Mac hardware but > I'm curious to hear how OS X compares to the more popular Linux > distributions. > > Somehow I've it stuck in my head that Apple would never migrate Macs > to be a genuine UNIX desktop workstation. I know they have had the > rements of NeXT at their core for a long time but I've never been able > to agree with the overall Mac vision (outside of it NOT being MS). > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >
