"John Slade" stated in post
BkZZj.448$Ri.250@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com on 5/24/08 11:43 AM:

>
> "Moshe. Goldfarb" wrote in message
> news:1jjsl67rniymr$.d1hhjl07keuj$.dlg@40tude.net.. .
>> " All of this and more are reasons enough to ignore Linux. Linux users are
>> never quite sure which one is the best distribution around. They have
>> debates in their own community with twenty different users vouching for
>> twenty different variations.
>
> And how is this different with Unix oh I mean OS X which is a Unix
> distribution.

As far as the consumer is concerned there is one OS X. One. Sure, there
are different "distros" for different languages and a server "distro", but
for the general consumer that is irrelevant.

You are tying to tie OS X to the rest of the Unix world - and while this
makes sense in some context (OS X is a certified Unix after all) in the
context of consumer confusion it is 100% irrelevant or close enough to not
really matter.

> So I guess that Mac users are saying the OS X(Darwin) distribution of Unix is
> better than BSD or Solaris. The person who made the satements above lacks
> knowledge of what Linux, Unix and OS X are. How does an cluless person like
> this get a job writing articles. Oh wait let's take a loot at the Author's bio
> and laugh.

Well, other than the fact that your basic premise of OS X being confused in
the consumer mind with other Unix variants is utter rubbish. You recently
(and again) belittled my technical knowledge via spewing complete and utter
lies about me (in regards to backups, etc.) Well, you, John Slade, have
just proved (again) how little you understand about the very market you
claim to be closely tied to.

OS X being confused with other Unix variants in the mind of the consumer...
get real, John. Get real and get a clue.

....

> To be a journalist, a real journalist, one must do research and have
> some training or you won't be a very good journalist.

To run a computer store one should know better than you do. Period.



--
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone. -- Bill Cosby

In article ,
"John Slade" wrote:

> "Moshe. Goldfarb" wrote in message
> news:1jjsl67rniymr$.d1hhjl07keuj$.dlg@40tude.net.. .
> > " All of this and more are reasons enough to ignore Linux. Linux
> > users are never quite sure which one is the best distribution
> > around. They have debates in their own community with twenty
> > different users vouching for twenty different variations.
>
> And how is this different with Unix oh I mean OS X which is a Unix
> distribution. So I guess that Mac users are saying the OS X(Darwin)
> distribution of Unix is better than BSD or Solaris. The person who
> made the satements above lacks knowledge of what Linux, Unix and OS X
> are.

People who use OS X decided to be Mac users. They didn't (with a few
very rare exceptions) decide to be Unix users and then try to figure
out what Unix to use, eventually settling on OS X. So, the problem
described above is not at all relevant to OS X.

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