From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 25 10:50:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4438937B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:50:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A55743FB1 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:50:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2PIocs8060087; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:50:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:50:38 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: John Martinez Cc: Bluezmo , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030325104018.T60034@babelfish.pursued-with.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-26.7 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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