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Re:Mac OS X market share cracks 8% by opal on Friday October 03, 2008 @03:44PM (#322985)
Too bad it's a fake *nix. Not compatible out of the box with 95% of linux applications.
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Re:Mac OS X market share cracks 8% by lallysingh on Friday October 03, 2008 @04:26PM (#323026)
darwinports does a pretty good job. And for many things, the mac has better software available.

Besides "fake *nix" could apply as well to linux as to darwin. Remember that OS X actually licensed the Unix name...

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Re:Mac OS X market share cracks 8% by opal on Monday October 06, 2008 @11:45AM (#324992)
No. You can compile the vast majority of unix projects on linux and run them with no modifications. Darwinports is ok if you want only the top 1% of popular projects, often several versions behind.
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Re:Mac OS X market share cracks 8% by jrockway on Friday October 03, 2008 @04:31PM (#323033)
Too bad

Why? OS X doesn't stop anyone from running Linux.

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