Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on BSD and Mac OS X
by Volker Weber
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes about BSD in Linux Magazine (yeah, December 2003 is a bit old). He has nothing but praise for Mac OS X:
For some reason, many Unix/Linux/BSD users seem slightly ashamed of MacOS X. Perhaps it's because Apple built a great desktop Unix by going their own way. ... The very best Linux interfaces pale besides the glory that is Aqua, the MacOS X user interface.
MacOS X, of course, is the leading Unix desktop operating system of all time. It may not look like a Unix variant to you, but underneath its glossy exterior lays an operating system based on the 4.4BSD-Lite2 Open Source distribution and the Open Software Foundation Mach 3.
His conclusion:
When it comes to security, the open source BSDs, especially OpenBSD, are the best in the business. When it comes to the desktop, MacOS X is the créme de le créme. For other purposes, though, Linux remains the open source operating system that most people still choose first.
I would have loved to see the comments to that article.
Comments
Oddly enough, I expected to get a fair amount of mail from that column, but I got almost none. For some reason Linux Magazine readers don't tend to write to writers.
I've no idea why that's the case.
Steven
Maybe they need online comments? You were quick to spot this posting. Did Esther tell you? :-)
Moi? [Esther bats her eyes]
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