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Re: [OSX Ninjashe]


From: "Muskegon Whitehall" <muskegon.whitehall () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:28:55 -0500

On 11/1/07, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote:

You apparently haven't been around Macs recently.  *Many* technical
people,
*especially* Unix and security admins, have started using Macs because
they
provide all the functionality of Unix with a beautiful GUI on top.


You're not wrong but Christ on a tricycle, WHY????

Gnome is shiny. KDE is shiny. E is shiny. Linux as a desktop is at a point
where someone can do everything he or she needs without resorting to
dual-boot and with PaX and GRSec there is actually some plausibility you
might have a fighting chance to not be somebody's bitch.

OSX has a Bash prompt. Great. Why do so many otherwise intelligent people
ignore the clusterfuck under the hood?
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