[Gllug] Apple

[Huw Lynes]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:52:06 +0000
Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:21:21AM +0000, Huw wrote:
> > If you have a single OSX box to look after they are fine. Integrating a
> > larger number into a pre-existing Unix environment is less fun. My own
> > particular gripes with OSX are its use of the horrible NetInfo database to
> > handle networking configuration rather than plaon text config files. And
> > OSX's implementation of NFS and automount really suck.
> 
> But it's much better than trying to integrate Windows boxen into the
> same.  A commercial *nix desktop being sold to the masses - I can't
> really object to that, even if it's not something I'd use myself.  If
> every Windows desktop in our network were magically replaced by an OSX
> machine, I'd have a little party.
> 
No arguments here. It's just that the apple developers' pathological distaste
for command line utilities makes looking after the machines much more hassle
than it should be. 

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