[GLLUG] MAC G5 1.8dual

[Clay Dowling]

On 10/02/2012 07:49 PM, Robar Philip wrote:
> This is simply not true. Unlike Linux, OS X is UNIX®.
Maybe OS X is somehow more pure.  I haven't used SVR4 in a very long 
time.  Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are all more like each other than they 
are like OS X.  Software written for those three is trivially easy to 
port among the three, but porting to OS X is much more involved. For 
binary software written in C an C++, it's easier to port to Windows than 
to OS X.

So whatever the purity of OS X, it's not like the other UNIX systems 
that are familiar to most UNIX users.  Similar, but definitely 
different.  I use Linux, OpenBSD and OS X every day for my job.  The 
similarity is appreciated, but the differences can also be frustrating 
at times.  Our IT staff is even more outspoken about the frustrations of 
the differences.

Clay