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On Wednesday 17 July 2002 13:38, Sean Hafeez wrote: |
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> You do not have a clue about what you are talking about. OS X is based |
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> on NeXTSTEP which happen to work well as a server OS - I had run 1000's |
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> of users on NeXTSTEP for years with no issues. |
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Sean, I _do_ have a clue, and I can tell you one thing 100% for sure, OS X != |
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OpenStep. It is based on it (at this late point in the game very loosely as |
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all the benefits of openstep are gone IMHO). Openstep _was_ fast, efficient |
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and worked well. OS X is not fast, not efficient, and works (note the |
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omission of well). |
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> If you would like to talk about the strengths and weakness of the MACH |
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> kernel and the micro kernel or BSD networking vs. the Linux way, would |
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> be happy to take that off line and do so. However, your response at the |
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> point reads like dumb-ass flame bait. |
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> And what is this "true unix" you are talking about? If you want to get |
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> down to linage OS X has a better path back to the original *BSD unix |
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> then Linux does. Hum, "true unix" - what a strange idea. |
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> I run and like Linux but it has it issue just like the rest. Linux would |
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> be better off without your kind of religious zealot behavior. |
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As for flamebait, the quotes "dumb ass flame bait" and "religious zealot |
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behaviour" qualifies pretty high up on my list. Please everyone try to keep |
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things under control in here, I dont want this to have to become a moderated |
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list. |
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Everyone is entitled to their opinions and everyone comes from a different |
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point of view on it. I personally don't see much sense in running OS X |
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Server on an Xserve, or on any server for that matter. Too much bloat and it |
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uses _far_ too much resources for my liking. Tie that in with the fact that |
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you can't strip it down in any way shape or form to select the pkgs installed |
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in the bloated base and it doesn't make sense to me. |
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Lastly, my comment regarding mach on ppc. It's insanely slow compared to it's |
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monolithic counterparts (at least at this point in time it is). Anyone who |
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has tried to run Darwin can attest to how slow it really is. If OS X made |
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some advances in this area (and not the pathetic hacks they added to their |
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forked mach for Jaguar) they would be making more progress IMHO. Eye candy |
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and headless servers... what's the point? |
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Gerk |
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