On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard L. Hamilton [mailto:rlha...@smart.net] > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 7:49 PM > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website > > > On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > >> >> Oh almost forgot. No, it doesn't matter what runs under the hood when you >> are dealing with a mass market GUI that isn't the point. The point is > that >> someone mentioned that OSX uses *BSD under the hood like somehow that has >> ANYTHING to do with getting more people away from linux. > > Even a mass market GUI is more attractive for even an newbie user to use if > it doesn't flake out as much because something better is underneath. > > *** Quite true, but it could have, for example, a stripped down flavor of > linux or plan9 or whatever...
IIRC, OS X almost had BeOS underneath instead…that would've been…interesting. Better? Worse? Who knows… _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
