[geeks] Mac definitions

[Dan Sikorski]

On 7/9/2011 11:47 AM, Andrew Jones wrote:
> Some day, you may have to swallow that irritation. Linux, particularly 
> RHEL, is dominant. It is telling that we have spent days discussing 
> Linux here, on a sunhelp.org mailing list.  As time goes on, you will 
> find ever fewer people who have ever used anything but Linux.
>
> Whether we like it or not -- and I don't -- RISC and legacy UNIX are 
> fading.  There is little motive for today's hobbyist to trouble 
> himself to learn Solaris at home.  Even if he wanted to, Sun hardware 
> has become rare, and Solaris security updates are not readily available.

I disagree.   Learning different systems gets you to think about things 
more abstractly than what you see in a single operating system.  This 
prepares you for learning new ones when they arrive.

     -Dan Sikorski