[clue-talk] Mac OS X instead of Linux?

[Kevin Cullis]

Of you can see here for more UNIX history:

http://www.levenez.com/unix/

Of the people I've talked with some are moving, as I have, to the ease 
of which Mac "just works" compared with Windows or Linux (I've heard 
around 10-20% of Linux/UNIX/Windows users are switching to Mac, even 
DEFCON hackers from a guy who attends the conference each year). I use 
all three and I'm surprised that GNOME and KDE are moving to a simplier 
way much like the Mac has done. But, the one thing that Linux has taught 
me is the CLI which I never thought I'd enjoy it as much as I do.

Just this week I showed a guy who downloads text files from computers 
and finds overpayments within the text files. I showed him how using the 
  text commands under Mac OS X and Linux could make a much better use of 
his computer than a Windows one.

I find computers to be like tools, while all are really close, most have 
  strengths and weaknesses that I couldn't just use one. ;-)

Kevin

mikeb wrote:
> 
>>> I though FreeBSD was similar to but different from "UNIX" (namely
>>> Solaris, HPUX) in basically the same wasy that Linux is similar to but
>>> different from UNIX. So it seems an unfair statement that FreeBSD just
>>> drops into a UNIX environment while Linux requires training before it
>>> can be dropped in.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Technically, FreeBSD is actually a Unix, in that it actually derives
>> from Unix code. HPUX, Solaris, AIX, etc are all derived from Unix, but
>> they're all different, so it requires some relearning moving from one
>> *nix to another, no matter which one you start with.
>>
>> There really isn't a pure UNIX anymore.
>>
>>  
>>
> Yes, Zonker pointed out Unix branched a long time ago from System 
> V(AT&T) and
> BSD(Berkeley ) I think if my memmory serves me right.  Dennis Richie and 
> the Bell Lab Boys in Jersey versus the University of California at 
> Berkeley(Bill Joy et al...) Also See link about Unix History. 
> http://www.crackmonkey.org/unix.html
> 
> But , back to Mac 10.x it is techically not like Linux in that the 
> kernel is a microkernel where linux will always be more advance in 
> performance.  See article in Linux Journal This should put your FUD 
> Fears to rest at least in the server area :
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6105
> 
> -mike
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