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  3. October 2003

RE: LINUX Workstations


I've never tried OS X, since I don't have a Mac.  But, it's based on
FreeBSD -- one of FreeBSD's founders (Jordan Hubbard) was hired by Apple
to coordinate things, and knowing his work, OS X is probably VERY well
done.


On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, jt wrote:
>
> Still, I may follow Joe's lead as the market strength of Linux /may/ make up
> for at least some of it's technical deficiencies, and wonder how these
> various flavors of *nix compare to OS-X?  I've heard a number of good
> opinions re: OS-X, but never tried it m'self.
>

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