[rescue] OS X is certified UNIX

[Robert Darlington]

Cool, I'll have to give it another go.  I thought the systems looked
real nice but I haven't been an end user of a mac since the 80s and
90s.

On 6/13/07, John Francini <francini at mac.com> wrote:
> 2.5 years ago means you would have been managing Jaguar or Panther
> (Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3, respectively). Those versions definitely
> would cause much consternation for any dyed-in-the-wool UNIX admin
> who expected Macs to just be a UNIX with a different GUI.
>
> In those versions, the needs of the GUI drove the underpinnings, and
> the inherited FreeBSD command-line stuff was largely left as-it-came.
> In Tiger and Leopard, Apple has put a lot of work into fixing these
> problems.
>
>
> On 13 Jun 2007, at 15:39, Robert Darlington wrote:
>
> > I guess the pigs have flown.  I did NOT enjoy my time managing about
> > 1200 OS X systems as a UNIX admin.  Hardly anything behaved like every
> > other UNIX or UNIX like system I ever used.  Hell, even NIS ignored
> > the shell field in the password maps.  Maybe things improved in the
> > past 2.5 years to the point where a UNIX admin woudln't wan to throw
> > these things out a window.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On 6/13/07, Magnus <magnus at yonderway.com> wrote:
> >> http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3552.htm
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