[PLUG] RE: BSD and OSX (was Steve Duin's column...)

[Kelly Guimont]

Actually, there are a lot of things solved by doing them the *nix way.
That's the nice thing about 90% of the OS, you can CLI if you want to, or
you can GUI if you want to. It's fantastic in that way.


On 5/30/02 12:10 PM, "Mike Holling" <myke at ees.com> wrote:

>> I want to go off here... I took a Mac OSX Admin Basics training
>> class last week. And OH MY GOD... I am in love! That is the slickest OS
>> I've ever seen. The only real problem I see, and this is more my
>> prefrence, is that while based on BSD, it still like learning a new Unix
>> system, some things I'm used to doing aren't available, like I can't get
>> vipw to work. Some of the device nodes are non-existant in single-user
>> mode, so you can't mount a CDRom. Just little things. Now... I just need
>> to figure out how to afford a Mac. :)
> 
> Although MacOS uses the FreeBSD userland it's still quite a different
> beast under the hood than *BSD.  I haven't poked at it too much but I
> don't think it uses anything like a simple /etc/passwd file for user
> information.
> 
> - Mike
> 
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