[TriLUG] Mac OS X is UNIX?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:36, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> I was perusing slashdot and come upon the following article:
> 
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-832650.html
> 
> The article is an interesting one and it is about Apple's Mac OS X.
> Apparently OS X runs UNIX at it's core but the article aslo claims
> that OS X is a real UNIX OS.
> 
Yes, it uses Mach as the kernel (and Mach is basically BSD).

> Is anyone out there running Mac OS X?  If so can you redirect your
> UNIX displays back to your Mac without 3rd party software?  Can you

Mac OSX is running unix, but not X.  So, the answer to that is no.

> mount drives?  And is there an honest-to-goodness command line

Yes, there is C Shell.

> interface in OS X?  Could Mac OS X be good enough as a UNIX machine to
> replace a Linux desktop?

Depends on what you want. :-)  Probably yes, unless you really
depend on X, and even then there are ways...

> 
> I haven't used a Mac in a LONG time but if they want to run UNIX on
> their desktop and not just at the core of the OS then I may have to
> seriously consider getting my hands on a Mac.

Well, the desktop is basically NeXTStep with the Aqua Theme. More
mac than unix.
 
> I've heard about Yellow Dog Linux which can run on Mac hardware but
> I'm curious to hear how OS X compares to the more popular Linux
> distributions.
> 

Hmm... not really an apples to apples question...


> Somehow I've it stuck in my head that Apple would never migrate Macs
> to be a genuine UNIX desktop workstation.  I know they have had the
> rements of NeXT at their core for a long time but I've never been able
> to agree with the overall Mac vision (outside of it NOT being MS).
> 

Actually, this is the first time they've had NeXT as their core.
Mac OS9 had nothing to do with NeXT.

Tanner (who's first experience with unix was NeXTStep in 1989)
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