Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:49:59PM -0500, Joe Block wrote:
> > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > > > > nothing else running on commercial Unix that comes close (I'm not
> > > > > counting Mac OS X as it's not based on X Windows and isn't a full Unix
> > > > > despite its Mach core).
> > > >
> > > > But on top of the mach core there is a full unix as I understand it,
> > > > including an Xserver that coexists with the mac display
> >
> > I'm kind of curious - what makes you say MacOS X isn't a full unix? I
> > run OSX Server on a couple machines and it seems pretty full to me -
> > most stuff builds with ./configure;make
>
> Interesting. My understanding was that MacOS X wasn't a full Unix. I'm
> often wrong.
>
> Could you provide pointers to the Unixy features of MacOS X? Are the
> standard Unix features and utilities provided or do you have to obtain
> them independently
120+ day uptime, tcsh, bash, gcc (tho a apple version that groks the
mach-o format OSX uses), perl, the usual suspects library-wise, crontab,
sendmail (which I promptly ripped out in favor of postfix), apache. No
X Window yet, but I hear John Carmack is porting it. python was a
fairly simple build as I recall.
Anything in particular you're looking for, feature wise?
My sole complaint unix-wise is that most of the c-l tools are bsd and
I'm more accustomed to the gnu versions, but that was easy enough to
fix. The first thing I do on a non-linux box is build gnu fileutils,
bash, make and gcc, so that wasn't a big deal.
jpb
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