Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:50:38 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com> Cc: Bluezmo <bluezmo@earthlink.net>, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm Message-ID: <20030325104018.T60034@babelfish.pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <C4A13C95-5EE9-11D7-94DC-0003937C0B34@mac.com> References: <C4A13C95-5EE9-11D7-94DC-0003937C0B34@mac.com>
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, John Martinez wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 07:09 AM, Bluezmo wrote: > > > > > To the people that suggested I run OS X on my Mac I need to say that I > > already do & am aware of Darwin's presence. However, the superior GUI > > of the Macintosh distracts me from interacting with the command prompt. > > I will delve into the reading material suggested to learn more. > > Huh? I have been using UNIX for like 14 years and have to say that Mac > OS X has actually brought me "back in" to the BSD fold (I used SunOS > when it was mostly BSD). You can enter ">console" with no password into the login requestor of any OS X machine and be dropped to a GUI-less login prompt. > Anyway, I do agree that touching as many UNIX variants as you can is a > good thing. Then, you can judge for yourself which one is your > "favorite" flavor. I have touched tons of UNIX variants in my time. I > have four favorites now three of which are BSD (one is FreeBSD, one is > Mac OS X, the other is OpenBSD), and one being a commercial flavor from > the major UNIX company left. Even though I do run Linux, I can't say > that it is one of my favorites. I converted my server from Solaris 8 to FreeBSD last year (ob: FreeBSD reference) *specifically* to improve mindshare with OS X. (I don't think Darwin/x86 is far enough along for my comfort level). I do use Linux on x86 laptops for the better hardware support. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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