[Pdx-pm] OT: Mac OS-X as Unix - any presenters available?

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Fri Sep 8 12:41:35 PDT 2006


# from Keith Lofstrom
# on Friday 08 September 2006 05:06 am:

>Personally, I am not so interested in why a Mac is superior (or not)
>to other systems, but more in the significant and subtle differences
>between the way Mac does Unix, versus Linux or stock BSD

It would of course have to start with the differences between linux and 
stock BSD (e.g. "ls foo -l" vs "ls -l foo" and of course "gls foo -l".)  
In my (a bit limited) experience, BSD is just like linux with some of 
the conveniences removed and Mac is just like BSD minus some 
efficiencies.

I could contribute observations about WxPerl and persistent NFS mounts 
on the Mac, but not much else at the moment.

It should finish by covering installation of linux on intel macs :-)

--Eric
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