[ic] Mac OSX viable as a development platform?

Michael Stearne interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Tue Mar 5 19:12:01 2002


On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 06:14 PM, Robert Brandtjen wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:01 pm, Michael Stearne wrote:
>> I'm kidding, but whatever slight Unix headaches there may be from 
>> OS X,
>> there is no way you can touch the ease of use for the rest of the OS,
>> including server administration. Try MacOS X server if you get a 
>> chance.
>>  http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/
>
> its still a dumbed down interface

Yes, you get a dumbed down interface for people like, but still the 
command line for gurus like yourself.

> - what ever linux may be lacking in, it
> isn't enough to justify switching to a server architecture which 
> requires
> periodic reboots to defragment the drive -

huh?  Does HFS+ get fragmented?  If so install as UFS.

Michael



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