[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [osol-mktg] RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

[Shawn Walker]

On 02/04/07, UNIX admin <tripivceta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > With respect to many kernel features, Mac OS X is
> > stuck in the early 1990s.
>
> Em, yep! As a Mac OS X (l)user, I can testify that OS X is about as dumb as a doornail underneath the slick Aqua GUI.
>
> They perverted the nice FreeBSD UNIX by crossing it over with a braindead MacOS 9 and the experimental CMU Mach kernel and created a genetically mutated monster, that is neither MacOS nor FreeBSD UNIX. However, they advertise it as FreeBSD.
>
> Makes me really feel guilty that I bought a Mac. And here I thought that it would be UNIX (which is why I bought it to begin with).
>

Supposedly Leopard will have UNIX certification according to Apple's
advertising materials. That will be interesting to see...

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"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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