On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. > Yes, it uses Mach as the kernel (and Mach is basically BSD).
> 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 Mac OSX is running unix, but not X. So, the answer to that is no. > mount drives? And is there an honest-to-goodness command line Yes, there is C Shell. > interface in OS X? Could Mac OS X be good enough as a UNIX machine to > replace a Linux desktop? Depends on what you want. :-) Probably yes, unless you really depend on X, and even then there are ways... > > 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. Well, the desktop is basically NeXTStep with the Aqua Theme. More mac than unix. > 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. > Hmm... not really an apples to apples question... > 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). > Actually, this is the first time they've had NeXT as their core. Mac OS9 had nothing to do with NeXT. Tanner (who's first experience with unix was NeXTStep in 1989) -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989
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