"xbill" for Mac OS X

An anonymous reader writes "Seems like some guys have made a GPL'd Mac OS X game called xGates. It's very similar to xbill but you get to use a chainsaw and it's awfully violent. Funny to see how the Mac community is slowly but surely becoming UNIXified. =)" Hey, xbill was a Unix app first, but we Mac users have hated Microsoft and Gates since before Linux or xbill even existed! :-)

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Re:UNIXified

[Dephex Twin]

Seriously though, transitioning from OS9 to OSX must be a bit like moving from an automatic to a stick shift.

Not really. OS X is more like an automatic compared to other UNIX-based OSes, since the command line is there, you just never have to use it if you don't want.

Actually, now that I'm using OS X, I have less technical stuff to deal with. I do a lot of technical stuff for fun, but in terms of what I have to do... well I don't have to do anything. The system has never crashed before. Back in the OS 9 days, things would start crashing, and you'd have to go in and do extension troubleshooting and stuff like that. If you bought a peripheral, you'd have to install drivers.

I know you can get into much more confusing stuff with OS X, but like I said, that thing never crashes. On OS 9 it was an inevidability that you would regularly have to deal with tougher stuff.

UNIXIFIED????

[inkswamp]

Funny to see how the Mac community is slowly but surely becoming UNIXified.

I thought it was the other way around. Seriously, I'm not trying to start arguments, but with all the talk I've heard about how OS X is the first Unix with a nice interface, I would think that Unix users have become somewhat Mac-ified. I don't hear nearly as much talk from old-time Mac users about how wonderful it is to have a CLI or Perl. I hear more chatter and excitement from the other site about how it's nice to have an interface that works so well. :^)

Too egocentric either way. Both statements are probably true--Mac users and Unix users have probably moved toward each other.