Questions from a Linux user considering a Macbook

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:37:03PM -0500, Kyle O'Donnell wrote:
> I just picked up my macbook on the weekend and I was going to run
> Linux instead of OSX, but I figured I would give OSX a try for a
> while.
> 
> I've been running a UNIX based (Linux/Free/OpenBSD) desktop as my
> primary machine for over a decade and I was reluctant at first, but
> after only 3 days I am ... wouldn't say converted, but very impressed.
> 
> I find myself using X11 less and less and native osx apps more.  There
> seem to be a number of equivalent tools available natively.
> 
> Don't forget about macports, which brings bsd style ports to osx (if
> you are not familiar, ports ==apt-get||yum)

No ports is really not like apt.  It is much less capable than apt,
and generally a pain to deal with.

I really despise the BSD user space in general.  Lovely kernels, lovely
software quality, awful user interface and install system.

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Len Sorensen
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