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http://www.macnn.com/articles/02/02/17/bsd.desktop/

BSD desktop share triples that of Linux

updated 11:30 pm EST, Sun February 17, 2002

 
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According to 'published reports,' Ernest Prabhakar of Apple Computer informed attendees at the USENIX BSD Conference earlier this week that BSD (upon which Mac OS X is based) is now "three times more popular" than Linux on desktop computers. Because Linux' primary strengths are in server-related applications and uses, columnist Kelly McNeill of osOpinion says bragging about BSD's desktop share over Linux "might be likened to an individual bragging that he is the fastest downhill skier in all of Egypt."


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    Funny

    I thought you could actually install Mac OS X without the BSD shell stuff. Not that anyone does, it's just not everyone uses the shell, whereas just about every Linux user has to.

    Mac OS X sits on top of the Mach 3 kernel. Surely, BSD is in the same layer as Carbon, Cocoa, Quartz, etc.

    Or have I got it wrong?

    Anyway, I'd much rather use Mac OS X than Linux. They even ripped off their penguin mascot from the QuickTime ice floe - seems Windows wasn't the only OS to rip off Apple.

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    02/18, 12:14am | report spam | Reply |

    ski

    you can probably do some gnarly sking in egypt, think about it. going down the side of some pyramids? just get extended length skis...
    sking can now be a summer olympics event! i wanna go to cairo and rip up some powder!

    and if anybody wants to learn about the open source bsd-ish core to mac os x:
    http://www.darwinfo.org/

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    What we don't need

    is for Apple to offend the Linux zealots.

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    Funny

    Heh, good analogy...got me to laugh...heh

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    BSD

    BSD isn't a desktop OS either, so the comparison stands. Of course Apple is going to brag about BSD's prevalence, it's the foundation of OS X. Anyone who would consider between BSD and Linux already knows that OS X is based upon BSD, so whether Apple says anything about it or not really makes little difference.

    I think this writer is nothing more than a jealous Linux/Windows user who wishes she could have her Linux and Windows together without rebooting. OS X is what she wants but instead of converting she's jealous. What a b****.

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    Eh?

    the comments by Apple were made to a BSD conference, so it was obviously an attempt to talk up Apple to a specific crowd, not a general smear about Linux. So the OsOpinion story is daft. that said, I think it is extremely important that people know how widespread the supposedly "niche" Apple OS is. To read the continual rain of hype and claims about Linux, you'd think everyone was using it except me.

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    Kelly is a dude!

    You know nothing until you know something about the author!

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    Re: BSD

    [i]I think this writer is nothing more than a jealous Linux/Windows user who wishes she could have her Linux and Windows together without rebooting. OS X is what she wants but instead of converting she's jealous. What a b****.[/i]

    Umm... she can. She can use the Windows version of Virtual PC to run Linux under Windows or WINE to do the reverse.

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    Linux's Penguin

    They even ripped off their penguin mascot from the QuickTime ice floe - seems Windows wasn't the only OS to rip off Apple.

    Perhaps you should take a look at http://www.sjbaker.org/tux/
    before making your claim.

  1. havannas

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    02/18, 10:42am | report spam | Reply |

    Umm "She" is a guy...an

    and you've probably never visited OsOpinion.com or you would know that it is really a thinly veiled pro-Apple site. He has probably used Os X a bit more tham the poster above.....

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