On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:29:29PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22:49AM +0100, Koralatov wrote: > > > As for OS X's Unix base: I'm not at all experienced, or even > > particularly knowledgeable, about Unix, but it appears pretty intact to > > me. The biggest difference I've discovered from other *nixen is that it's > > deprecated cron in favour of launchd. > > I suspect I'll still be using cron anyways...I have too much in my > crontab, and like Mutt, I'm very comfortable with it. :-) >
It's been about 3 years since I used OS X, but it seemed to me there were quite a few little annoyances and gotchas for people accustomed to BSD and Linux. In fact, I initially nicknamed it "BustedBSD", LOL, but fortunately the problems were all relatively simple to overcome. iTerm (to replace Terminal.app) was a *very* important upgrade, and there were quite a few things which were better from source than from Mac Ports. The situation may be different now, of course. My experience was with Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard, using a 2009 Mac Mini Core2duo and also a 2004 G4 eMac. I would hope it's better now. :) -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha
