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    I use Solaris 9 at work. Hopefully we'll get to ten soon.

    I had a play with ubuntu a little while back but went another direction.

    As I'm sure you all know I use a Mac with OS X which is essentially a version of BSD. I call it the flashest Linux distibution out. It has the advantages of linux with a to-die-for GUI and good hardware support. If anything isn't supported I can use linux gimp drivers

    Sensational wrap up of linux JD

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    As I'm sure you all know I use a Mac with OS X which is essentially a version of BSD. I call it the flashest Linux distibution out. It has the advantages of linux with a to-die-for GUI and good hardware support.
    Yep!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot View Post
    I use Solaris 9 at work. Hopefully we'll get to ten soon.

    I had a play with ubuntu a little while back but went another direction.

    As I'm sure you all know I use a Mac with OS X which is essentially a version of BSD. I call it the flashest Linux distibution out. It has the advantages of linux with a to-die-for GUI and good hardware support. If anything isn't supported I can use linux gimp drivers

    Sensational wrap up of linux JD
    You might call OS X the flashest distribution of Linux out, but BSD is not Linux, although both are versions of Unix (as is Solaris).

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    You might call OS X the flashest distribution of Linux out, but BSD is not Linux, although both are versions of Unix (as is Solaris).

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    Yes, True... but that' kinda hard to explain to most people... However they are closely related. I really like this diagram here for explaining


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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot View Post
    Yes, True... but that' kinda hard to explain to most people... However they are closely related. I really like this diagram here for explaining
    I like it too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot View Post
    As I'm sure you all know I use a Mac with OS X which is essentially a version of BSD. I call it the flashest Linux distibution out. It has the advantages of linux with a to-die-for GUI and good hardware support. If anything isn't supported I can use linux gimp drivers
    I had a play with OS X recently and man is that one nice OS.

    Tempted to create a dual boot now that it runs on x86 hardware.

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    why bother, i did and i think i have used it twice, both times to show someone windows running on a mac ... :P
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    Quote Originally Posted by incisor View Post
    why bother, i did and i think i have used it twice, both times to show someone windows running on a mac ... :P
    I actually meant the other way round, OSX on a PC

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    Quote Originally Posted by incisor View Post
    why bother, i did and i think i have used it twice, both times to show someone windows running on a mac ... :P
    I would agree with you - if you have a Mac, why would you want to run Windows? But there are some people who are very much into games and this could be a reason, also could be attractive to those running Windows but thinking of changing to Mac.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    I like it too!

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    I didn't mention... it's from wikipedia "unix".

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