Hello Everyone,<br><br> I am the proud owner of a brand new 24" iMac 2.8 gHz model. Well, actually I bought it for my girlfriend for Christmas, but since it's in our home, it's 'both of ours.' I've been toying around with it for two days now, and I really like it. I joined this list to learn a little more about Macs and OSX. The last time I used a Mac was in the early 90s. I believe it was OS version 7 or so. I had AOL on it (back when you paid by the minute.) I miss those old days of computing, but I'm glad to see that Mac has come so far. I'm still learning all of the new stuff that this Mac has on it, and I'm sure I will be learning for a while to come. I work as a Systems Architect in the San Francisco bay area, mainly working with large web application infrastructures. I primarily work with Linux/Unix and Windows based architectures, so this new Mac will be another trick up my sleeve in the future - I hope. I've read that OSX is based on BSD, and from what I've seen working within the terminal, it's very similar to *nix environments I've worked in before. If you have any recommendations for the new Mac owner to come up to speed with the OS and such, please pass them along. I also develop a lot in python, so if Mac has a built in python interpreter and maybe a nice editor, I would be elated.
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