Why isn't Apple releasing patches for the Month of Apple Bug exploits???

[Zane H. Healy]

At 11:47 AM -0800 2/11/07, Hex Star wrote:
>hmm? what do you mean not even close? OK so maybe it's based on Unix, not
>linux but it's still a good part of the *nix world is it not? I'm sure it is
>seeing as how with all the stuff they've opensourced (all of the *nix
>stuff)...it seems to be a good chunk of the OS, the only thing not
>opensourced is of course the gui side of OS X...if I'm still wrong please
>tell me why as it seems to me that OS X is a great part of *nix...

Mac OS X runs on a Mach microkernal, and just happens to have a 
optional BSD based subsystem that provides a fairly decent Unix 
command-line environment.  They also provide an optional, and 
crippled X-Windows implementation.

The Unix parts of Mac OS X aren't great, but they are enough for most 
of what I need.  Personally if I need to do any serious Unix work, 
I'll use Solaris, OpenBSD, or even Linux instead.

Don't get me wrong, Mac OS X can make a good Unix workstation, but 
Unix or Linux it isn't.

Zane


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