Your Honest opinion

[Harvey Ussery]

Tim,     Thanks for an interesting & informative reply.    --Harvey 

Tim Seufert wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Harvey Ussery wrote:
>
>> (Yeah I know, there's Darwin; but whenever I got into it I got pretty 
>> frustrated--admittedly, probably because I was used to bash.)
>
>
> You do know you can use bash on just about any UNIX, don't you?  I'm 
> fairly sure bash has shipped with every release version of OS X, and 
> as of Panther, new user accounts are configured to use bash instead of 
> tcsh as before.
>
> (Personally, after using OS X for a while, I've gotten addicted to the 
> better command completion of tcsh.  With the right setup -- 
> /usr/share/tcsh/examples/rc on OS X is a great start -- tcsh can be a 
> lot smarter than bash command completion.  Maybe there's some similar 
> capability in bash, but I've never found it.  Fortunately, just as you 
> can use bash on OS X, you can use tcsh on Linux if you like.)
>
>> OSX is like Windows in that it is designed for, and is probably the 
>> right solution for, someone with a plug&play approach to use of his 
>> computer.
>
>
> This doesn't exclude non plug & play approaches to OS X.  The thing 
> is, if you expect the non-GUI stuff to behave just the same as Linux, 
> you'll be disappointed.  NeXT did a lot of things differently from 
> other UNIXen, even the BSDs it was based on, and a lot of that 
> survives into OS X.  They seem to be moving many things closer to 
> modern BSDs and Linux (for example it appears that NetInfo is now 
> considered legacy and will be removed some time in the future, 
> possibly as soon as the next major release) but there will always be 
> some differences.
>
> Some of the differences are frustrating -- like the poor quality of 
> the man pages.  Many of them are hopelessly out of date, or not even 
> present.
>
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