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Originally posted by mouth
you mean linux? i know Mac OS X was built on top of linux so as it would be more stable and would crash less, although i dont crash that often at all may be once or twice a week?
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This might sound a little weird, but Linux is
NOT UNIX.
OSX is based in BSD UNIX, which is generally considered to be the mother of all UNIXes.
You should know that UNIX is very userfriendly, but that it is picky about it's friends.
You can say it in other words also: UNIX is roughstyle. It is extremely clean, and doesn't aid the user if not stricktly necessary. Linux is much softer and less hard. For instance you can use the -h flag on GNU/Linux's ls which makes filesizes humanreadable (MB's, GB's, etc.) but a typical BSD UNIX does not support that and leaves you with k's. Sun's Solaris has also this rough BSD core in it.
But all this does tell nothing about the silk skin Apple has built for OSX. You don't need to know anything of UNIX to run your OSX machine.
You only need to use
it.