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Quote: Originally Posted by iPeon The Mac is a machine. It has no correlation once so ever with religion. There's your confusion. No, no, I am not the one confused. To me it's just a machine! It's Mac users like aegisdesign who make i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign I know my UNIX and Linux inside out and if someone suggested tar as a backup program for production use I'd show them where the door is. Sure, and since you have a website, and therefore I know how you l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign No, the answer is still no. OSX is not 'UNIX + GUI'. It's not JUST that it's MORE than that. There will always be people who claim that Windows 98 is not Windows 95 (even that Windows 95 doesn't run on t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by acr4 I quit reading about 5 posts in, so if this a repeat, I apologize. .... . I liked your answer. My friend said he'll lend me one of his Mac OS X computers (he has serveral) and I'll do some tests. However, it'…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign To answer your initial question though... No, it's not. It's Real proper 100% UNIX (certified) based on BSD + a GUI + a whole set of advanced frameworks (as an ex-Amiga guy you'll know about Libraries…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin For me personally, OS X is the best unix platform and the easiest to use, which makes me question why people would use Linux. OS X can do stuff that Linux can't but Linux can't do anything OS X can't from what I…
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PB, Mr Me, Thank you for your very good points. In fact, even Apple advertises Mac OS X as a UNIX with a GUI/UI (again, great ones!), http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html So next time I have one of those Mac priests trying to co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by smashbrosfan Well OS X "is" completely different. But not in the way you're talking about. Apple of course did edit their version of the Unix that's in OS X a little bit, but what makes OS X a completely different cre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by smashbrosfan I guess I'm not seeing your point here then. Having Unix, the most stable, secure, and widely used OS as OS X's back end was kind of the whole point of OS "X". Apple wrote their own proprietary OS from Sys…
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Quote: Originally Posted by smashbrosfan Hi there, meet Windows, Unix derivative + GUI. NT and DOS are both Unix children. Albeit more distant than Linux, but children nonetheless. Sure! But my question is more direct. There is a differenc…
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I would like to thank all those who replied. Even the 1000 + estimate is impressive to me (not to say the ~ 600). It almost seems like a disinformation tactic, since I would have expected the actual number to be in the several thousands (like…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Less than 1 in 20. Thanks! Does this mean that it's about 1000 people? This is really impressive, and in fact hard to believe, given the amount of work that usually goes behind developing and maintain…