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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Mac Osx.2 Post 29493 by LivinFree on Monday 7th of October 2002 09:57:17 PM
Old 10-07-2002
Mac Osx.2

I finally broke down and decided to buy a new piece of hardware. I think I made the right decision when I chose an Apple iBook - OSX is incredible! I haven't used a Mac since System7.5, and 10.2 is just blowing me away!

Best of all, it's easy to use for people who are not used to Mac, but if I feel like fiddling around, or writing an automation script I can do so!
My only gripes are that it's a very very modified Unix - nothing is as it seems (or how it seems to me, anyways). For example, trying to change my shell, I checked /etc/passwd (/etc, by the way, is actually symlinked to /private/etc...), and /etc/master.passwd - both said bash, but I always got tcsh when I launched Terminal. Turns out I have to modify my entry in Mac Hard Drive/Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager... bah!
Also, the terminal is slow... if I type "ll" (I have it aliased to ls -l), it may take nearly a second to display my directory... Not that that's too bad, but it gets annoying when I'm used to zippier speeds on an old 486...

All in all, Apple beat the crap out of any other company/organization trying to "bring unix to the desktop"...
 

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SubmitDiagInfo -- sends diagnostic information to Apple SYNOPSIS
SubmitDiagInfo DESCRIPTION
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