And MacOS X is BSD UNIX, so you can use the shell if you don't want the
GUI -- butthe GUI is gorgeous and very useable.
On Saturday, August 25, 2001, at 03:32 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Douglas:
>
>> I am a Multics/Unix person who cut his teeth on Algol60,
>
>> I am interested in getting into LInux but I dont think I
>> am a technical enough person to try for it yet.
>
> Isn't Linux mostly a stand-alone unix clone? So if you were on a
> mainframe
> with a unix substructure, you shouldn't have a problem.
>
> But I haven't tried to install it (has anyone?) and I think there are
> still
> problems on drivers (not everything is supported on Linux).
>
> Robin
>
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