[TriLUG] Mac OS X is UNIX?

[Robert Weeks]

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: <gregbrown at mindspring.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
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
>
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