Re: [Fwd: Re: Mac: Mighty mini]

Not that there's anything wrong with OS X, infact, it's a wonderful
system. It's great for desktop users and the like. But... There are a
few problems with it. For example, it's almost bsd but it's not. The
kernel that they designed (changed a bit of the mach kernel) isn't as
good where the linux kernel is strong. The way they do things, such as
IOKit is just weird. And no offense, I wouldn't try running OS X without
378mb of ram, without, you'll be chocking. I own an ibook, and i've
administered several apple computers. I wouldn't say linux is better on
apple hardware, but linux on ppc is exciting. I have a feeling that
those of you that switch from linux to OS X will find it rather boring,
everything ALWAYS works... (at least I did.)

Now that we've established that it runs a weird mach kernel. Darwin
doesn't have ports. And in my view, the only thing that makes a bsd
system, a bsd system is the kernel and the ports system. So basically,
Darwin isn't anything like freebsd. It's just another opensource system.

For those of you that are tired of messing around with stuff, and want a
system that just works, all the time. Get that, it's cheap, it's fast,
and it looks cool.

whitham

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:07 -0900, Joshua Kugler wrote:
> Oh, i have not problem with OS X, and think it is a sleek system. But, if it
> was going to be firewall, it's going to be headless anyway, thus no need for
> Aqua. I agree, there is nothing wrong with BSD, but since this is going to
> be a work box, and not a play box, I want something on there I know and know
> well, thus Linux.
>
> So, nothing against OS X, it's just that Linux fits better in this case.
>
> j----- k-----
>
> On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:52, damien hull wrote:
> > This is a nice system and it's nice to see people talking about the Mac
> > again. What I can't figure out is why you want to put Linux on it.
> > What's wrong with OS X?
> >
> > OS X is Darwin which is the PPC version of FreeBSD. All apple did was
> > add Aqua. Well, maybe they did a few more things but you get the idea.
> > There is nothing wrong with FreeBSD and Aqua is a very nice GUI
> > interface.
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:03 -0900, Adam bultman wrote:
> > > For those of you who live under rocks, Apple revealed the Mac Mini
> > > yesterday/today.
> > >
> > > Observe: http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html
> > >
> > > While the RAM is a little low, I'm going to start selling my 'extra'
> > > hardware and scrounging up other parts as to allow myself to get one of
> > > those little critters. Ooh, I can't wait!
>

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Received on Wed Jan 12 15:04:17 2005