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Re:Apple blocks Pragmatic Programmers' release of iPhone boo... by rbanffy on Thursday September 25, 2008 @07:36AM (#314753)
That's more or less what I do. Many of my toys are Apple, but I buy my more important stuff elsewhere. As much as I would love to be able to use a Mac for my work, OSX is just not Unix-ish enough for me.
Re:Apple blocks Pragmatic Programmers' release of iPhone boo... by jimm on Thursday September 25, 2008 @08:27AM (#314784)
In what ways? I have used OSX at work for years. It is plenty "Unix-ish" for me, and I've been using *nix for twenty-five years.
Re:Apple blocks Pragmatic Programmers' release of iPhone boo... by rbanffy on Thursday September 25, 2008 @02:14PM (#315164)
First, there is this weird thing of programs in the */bin folders versus application structures in .app directories. The next problem is the Terminal - Even xterm is more comfortable to work with, specially when you have a three-button mouse. Then there is the less than stellar X support (I always had lots of problems piping X clients from a beefier computer to my Mac). I also dislike the fact many settings are stored not in files under /etc, but in a database. And, finally, there is no package manager (but that's not a non-Unix thing, it's more a non-Linux thing).

For those reasons, I prefer a Debian-based OS. I keep reading OpenSolaris has a nice package manager that can do rollbacks and may consider it in the future. As for OSX, it's not for me.