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Originally posted by Greg McCoy
I think that the Mac OS is totally done by Apple and doesn't have anything to do with Unix.

One of the things that I don't like about Apple computers is that they only have one mouse button (the old ones are this way, I'm not sure about the newer ones ) I don't know much about them though, I never really ran into them much. They do seem to be more user friendly though.

If Apple hadn't have screwed up their business by not opening up third party software development much, me might be talking on Macs right now
The OSX kernel is BSD, Unix. If you can ignore the cute GUI (an interesting system called Darwin, which also runs on x86), and managed to get yourself to a shell prompt, many of the same commands and programs you'd find on a *n*x system. Same syntax, same everything.

The "I hate Apple because they only have one mouse-button" argument annoys me the most, especially nowadays... All current Apple computers have USB, and support for practically any USB mouse on the market, including Microsoft and Logitech mice. For the past few weeks, I've had an iBook, on loan from my school, so I've become pretty farmiliar with the hardware Apple uses. Any time I needed to, I just plugged in my MS Intellimouse Explorer, and it worked perfectly, never had any problems, whatsoever.

Now, on the software side, I have a different opinion. MacOS (including OSX) sucks. Plain and simple. They focus on making it look pretty, and being easy for computer-illiterate people to use, but by doing so, they alienate savvy and hardcore users.
"OMFGZ!! THE ICON!! IT'S BOUNCING!!!"
Umm.... right... I still don't care...

PPC isn't bad at all, but the operating system still sucks...

Recently, I saw an RC5 benchmark which had a 1GHz G4 whooping the %%% of a 2.4GHz P4, which I would have to say is pretty respectable.

And, in response to the statement that being closed to third-party development killed Apple... well... if they had enough support, Apple would act just like Microsoft... but they dont, so they have to look like the underdog, the rebels... which is BS, IMHO...

Horray, that was about $0.06 worth of talk...

Edit:
Oh yes, I should point out that the day I recieved my iBook, I installed Debian/GNU Linux on it... As I said, I can't stand and form of MacOS...
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