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
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, 2004-03-08
Maybe they need online comments? You were quick to spot this posting. Did Esther tell you? :-)
Volker Weber, 2004-03-08
Moi? [Esther bats her eyes]
Esther Schindler, 2004-03-09
