Manchester BSD UG - Different venue

Paul Richards paul at originative.co.uk
Fri Dec 31 16:28:46 GMT 2004


On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:18:11PM +0000, Paul Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:59:36PM +0000, Pete French wrote:
> 
> > Out of interest why do you consider OSX to be Fisher Price Unix ? having
> > been an OpenStep user since 1990 I never though it was any worse than
> > other BSD variants. Had it's quirks sure, but it never struck me as being
> > a lesser system than any other 4.3 variant.
> 
> You know the saying "If you don't understand Unix, you're doomed to
> reimplement it badly"?
> 
> Personal preference and all that. Anything else I add now is just going
> to be the start of another flamewar. :-)

You know that the userland is basically FreeBSD? Apart from some
configuration files being in different places I usually don't notice
much difference going to the CLI on Mac OSX from FreeBSD.

-- 
Paul Richards




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