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Story: Linux proves a winner Down Under

Posted by: Alex M (Wednesday 26 November 2003, 2:24 PM)

Mac and Linux/Unix are built to play nice...

As a Mac OS X user, I am using (misusing too!) and learning so many UNIX commands that its not even funny.

Recently when I had to setup a Discussion board, I could do it using phpBB on a FreeBSD hosting provider without much problems. The only problem I had was quickly solved beacuse of my - now better - knowledge of UNIX commands. I can sysadmin a UNIX install as well as any fresh UNIX graduate from a traning center without ever having gone to class for it!

The number of Unix/GPL/OpenSource programs ported to the Mac is increasing everyday - SNORT, OpenOffice (X11), wGet, are the ones I use - but a whole lot is available at http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/index.php

So if you want to learn UNIX/Linux while having the most user friendly interface around, try Mac OS X.