[indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

[Tim Bray]

On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Milan Jurik wrote:

> Did somebody ask why there are two (or three) the most growing user's
> bases (ignoring MS Windows, as there is another reason):
>
> a) (X|K)Ubuntu (or PCLinuxOS)
>
> b) Mac OS X
>
> Eric, I think you can easily find some of your colleagues who are  
> using
> Macbooks or Ubuntu... Ask them why.
>
> It is not in command line utilities. These are not the barrier for  
> users
> to switch from other OSes.

No, but command-line utilities are important for *developers*.  I'm a  
longtime Linux guy, and when I'm in a terminal window on OS X, I  
basically can't tell the difference from Linux.  If I want to do  
system-oriented stuff, there are some issues, but you'd expect that.   
But all my usual commands for moving around, looking at things,  
seeing what's running, etc etc etc, are 100% the same.  And this is  
one reason why I think OS X has done so well in the developer  
community.  -Tim