Re: SCO Technical Articles to say "tata".

From: Bill Campbell (bill_at_celestial.com)
Date: 05/30/03 

Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:09:02 GMT
To: Sco Mailing List <scomsc@xenitec.on.ca>

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:45:24AM -0600, justin wrote:
>> Mac Os X is BSD, not Linux.
>
>I hadn't realized that OS X was BSD. I guess that is what happen when you
>get your information from the mainstream press who doesn't know the
>difference, instead of actually reading it. Mac OS X isn't suitable for
>what we need anyway. We don't need a slick GUI with a high price tag, just
>a command line interface.

Here's my OS X desktop as it was about a year ago before doing a
presentation at the local Mac users group. Basically it's the
same as I use on Linux where I'm running the xfce window manager
under X, plus have all the OS X applications available as well.
I'm spending over half my time now working on the OS X desktop,
the rest on Linux (mainly when I want to cut-n-paste from mutt in
an xterm to the opera browser also under X).

        http://support.celestial.com/doc/osx/

While the vast majority of my own work is command line in xterms,
OS X is great for many of our customers who want a nice desktop,
and are a bit afraid of making the jump to Linux or FreeBSD.

Bill 

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