You should feel dirty. Mac OSX is based on Darwin. a derivitive of 4.4BSD http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ the free version of Darwin is GNU-darwin. http://www.gnu-darwin.org
<sarcasm>All are evil bsd stuff.</sarcasm> Use Yellow Dog....Feel Clean http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ In my experience Mac OS X requires as much work as Linux to setup for development. If you already know Linux it is not that hard a transition. Fink is the key. http://fink.sourceforge.net/ Use as many GNU Open Source Apps as you can. I hope this helps -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:10 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession) Don't feel dirty Ken, I believe MAC OS X is Linux or Unix based. Now if that was you half naked on stage at 'The Lady' last night you should be ashamed of yourself! :-0 Shawn Ken Wrote: I've been using Linux as my desktop OS at work and at home pretty much full time since I first loaded Slackware from a huge stack of floppies in '95. Since I've worked as a *NIX sysadmin and then a *NIX developer, having a UNIXy desktop was wonderful. For last 2 1/2 years I've been using my personal laptop as my main machine at work and then as my secondary machine at home. It started out as RH7.3 and is now running FC1. It was time to replace this workhorse and tomorrow it's replacement arrives; a shiny new Powerbook. Normally the arrival of a new toy of this magnitude fills me with the same anticipation that I felt on Christmas Eve as a child. This time it's different. I feel like I'm cheating on my wife or I've given up on an old friend. I just feel dirty. I do not plan on loading Yellowdog or any other of the Mac Linux distros. As I said, this is my main machine for work. As much as I enjoy the challenge that Linux sometimes poses, I can't afford the downtime at work. While Linux makes a great desktop OS, my experience has been that it's not so hot on laptops(ACPI anyone). I know it will get there. For now, my productivity requires me to go elsewhere. I'm still running 3 Linux machines at home and a dozen or so at work, but tomorrow will be a sad day for me just the same. It will be the end of an era. Ken -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
