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Posted by michael on from the pick-one-and-stick-with-it-already dept.

serendigital writes "Unix guru Simon Cozens wrote about his "conversion" story in the UK Unix User Group Newsletter. He touts: OroborosX and XDarwin. This gives you a rootless X server and Aqua-like window manager. He also seems to like the libraries: the NeXT approach of separating libraries off into their own subdirectories and separating out library versions makes for a much tidier filesystem arrangement than simply bundling everything in /usr/lib. One of the more controversial "differences" in OSX." And on the other side of the switch, there's Wil Wheaton does Mandrake.

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  1. Re:the underlying OS is irrelevant by MoneyT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And so Apple has made a system then for all users. For the most users, there's a nice easy to use, intuitive GUI. For the other people who do care what's underneith, there's BSD and darwin.

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    T Money
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  2. Re:the underlying OS is irrelevant by MoneyT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1)
    commercial != bad

    I hardly see people bitch and moan when a new game like UT 2k3 is released. Never mind that it's all closed source and you can't change it at all, linux users rejoice when a game is ported to their machines.

    commercial software when done right provides a quality that is hard to match let alone beat with free software.

    2) I'm not even going to get into this debate.

    3) Sluggish if he last time you used or saw (I doubt you've ever used) was OS X Beta

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    T Money
    World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984