On 11/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Schmehl</b> <<a href="mailto:pauls@utdallas.edu">pauls@utdallas.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You apparently haven't been around Macs recently. *Many* technical people,<br>*especially* Unix and security admins, have started using Macs because they<br>provide all the functionality of Unix with a beautiful GUI on top.
</blockquote><div><br>You're not wrong but Christ on a tricycle, WHY????<br>
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Gnome is shiny. KDE is shiny. E is shiny. Linux as a desktop is at a
point where someone can do everything he or she needs without
resorting to dual-boot and with PaX and GRSec there is
actually some plausibility you might have a fighting chance to not be somebody's bitch.<br>
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OSX has a Bash prompt. Great. Why do so many otherwise intelligent people ignore the clusterfuck under the hood?<br><br>
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