Interesting Perspective on OSX -- It's Not Unix

Tim O'Reilly, founder of the popular books with animals on the cover, recently wrote an article on people switching to Mac OS X. He provides some anecdotal evidence -- which, to his credit, he cites as such -- about the makeup of users adopting the new OS, and attempts to make the case that Mac OS X is Unix on the desktop, achieving what Linux and numerous other Unix vendors have failed to do. But O'Reilly's claim that Apple has achieved a desktop flavor of Unix in OS X (and should focus some marketing effort on converting Unix/Linux users) dances around a number of issues, not the smallest of which is one extremely important fact: Mac OS X is not Unix.

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/557/

Comment: There is stuff to agree with here -- OS X's flavor of "unix" can drive you batty quickly if you've spent a lot of time in Linux / Unix.  That said, Unix like or Unix derived, however you want to term it, is like 10,003 times better than the bitch that is Windows.  OSX certainly isn't perfect but it is damn good.

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Picture of the Day: A Classic Hardware Store

R.G. Brewers - A Classic Hardware Store in the 50s
(Mamaroneck, NY -- Over 120 years old and still in business,
still run by the original family)

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