Mike_Amiga wrote:
X or 10 as I'm told it's supposed to be called runs on a UNIX base. How do people think of this OS? As a bastardised version of UNIX or a clever incorporation of UNIX? Are you happy it was incorporated (about time) or annoyed Apple have started acting like M$ ripping off other peoples inventions?
I don't think it's so much bastardized as ... well, I supopsed enhanced. It's a BSD based system, with a Mac skin over the top, and it's quite nice actually. We have a nice little iBook here at home, and the wife likes the regular Mac stuff, and I like having all the familiar *nix tools at the terminal. Perl is already there, and awk and cron and vi or emacs if you prefer etc.
I find myself using it quite a bit.
How much difference is there between UNIX and LINUX?
Hmmm. Lot's, and not much.
While the actually code between various *nixes is different, the API's are more or less standardised so that most code written in C is trivially portable between them.
