Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacLINUX
Date: 20 Jan 2014 05:02:57 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Lines: 22
Message-ID: <bk3p01FpbjaU2@mid.individual.net>
References: <fmmck-D35046.18311417012014@5ad64b5e.bb.sky.com> <jk7pd9519v3jequm4klsttt0gqs2ispqrk@4ax.com> <slrnldpamf.6j8.gsm@cable.mendelson.com>
X-Trace: individual.net F4Mas/fiG+C3tsHWvaHF1AqTv0z2mbOYmV0TZkHec4EnBPuY/C
Cancel-Lock: sha1:sW0ay7bRXoMYxb1IBWECSP/IdSg=
X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1<n@LQ!aZ7vLO_nWbK~@T'XIS0,oAJcU.qLM dk/j8Udo?O"o9B9Jyx+ez2:B<nx(k3EdHnTvB]'eoVaR495,Rv~/vPa[e^JI+^h5Zk*i`Q;ezqDW< ZFs6kmAJWZjOH\8[$$7jm,Ogw3C_%QM'|H6nygNGhhl+@}n30Nz(^vWo@h>Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-)
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin)
Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:55031

On 2014-01-20, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:
> Barry OGrady wrote:
>>
>> If you have OSX installed you have Darwin Linux installed.
>>
> Darwin is a BSD (Berkely Systems Development) UNIX variant, not Linux.

Of course, but I'm pretty sure he was saying that tongue in cheek. ; )

> You can open a terminal and get a BSD shell, which these days looks an
> awful lot like a Linux shell, and install X-Code, the development
> environment and download and compile many programs which were first
> developed on Linux.

I'm pretty sure you're both saying essentially the same thing. At least
that's how I interpreted his statement. : )

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR