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Operating Systems Linux Fedora How is OS X related to unix Post 302311872 by boarder428 on Wednesday 29th of April 2009 10:40:26 PM
Old 04-29-2009
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Originally Posted by squosl
I adminstrated a handful of OSX servers a few years ago, OSX 8 I think. Structurally, OSX feels a lot like any other BSD variant. The problem I had is that apple inserted a layer of abstraction to make the GUI work with the system utilities, and it was easy to make changes to the system from the command line that wouldn't show up in the GUI and created interesting states after reboot. Networking and server startup/reset, IIRC, were especially "creative". There's a whole bunch of commandline utilities that are supposed to automagicallly update all the differenct configuration files to keep the GUI happy, but I don't remember what they are right now.

If you need an OS to play around with for your class, I would suggest a BSD or linux.
My class is using Fedora 10 from a "Live cd" it is just a beginner fundamentals/scripting course, I was just surprised to see an OS-X section here, I don't have much experience with Os-X other than I have ran it thru virtual machine to have a look. I never realized how many flavors of Linux were avaliable until I started this course and then to learn that Apples OS-x was a variant of UNIX somehow!

Now I'm curious and have asked my Professor some questions but his input was just to strictly stay with Fedora as that's what the course materials cover. I appreciate the replies and honestly have about a million more questions at this point but I probably need to do some more research!

What brought all this on was one of my lab assignments is to explain the difference between Unix and Linux and since this is not covered in the text book I turned to the web for answers and have been a little overwhelmed with the results and still have never found a straight forward answer! From what I've read, the only difference I can come up with is that Unix is an actual OS where as Linux is a Kernel not an OS! WHich at this point does not make much sense to me yet!

Thanks
Corey
 

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