[X-Unix] !@#$@!#$%$% X11 (in Leopard of course)!

[Eric F Crist]

On Dec 18, 2007, at 11:16 AM, TjL wrote:

> On 12/17/07, Mac Daddy <macdaddee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Along the same lines, nice that I can use flat files to enable NFS
>> shares so I don't need to use NFS Manager (which is not an option
>> since it's not compatible with 10.5), but GEEEZZ! The whole /etc/
>> exports format  just HAS to be entirely different!!! Took so #$%$#^^&
>> long to get something so simple up .... Is it a BSD-ism or do they
>> just want to annoy?
>
> Two things happened with Leopard:
>
> 1) Leopard is now Unix, not Unix-like, which is why (as one example)
> ps -auxww doesn't work but ps auxww works
>
> 2) NetInfo is dead as a doornail.
>
> I'd guess that one or the other of those two things will be the root
> (HA!) cause of any commandline problems you have.
>
> TjL

Copyrights aside, BSD is UNIX, and OS X has the userland utils from  
FreeBSD.  AFAIK, Apple is getting closer and closer to being a better,  
solid Unix OS, with the same configuration and non-obfuscation as most  
of the *BSDs out there.

Coming from a background of 10+ years behind a FreeBSD CLI, I find  
things getting better, rather than worse.

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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks