Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 3215
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:13:52 +0100, Sandman
No, like backing up to a remote host, with automatic secure login, encrypted channel, compressed and encrypted data, in either a single line of shell script or something equivalently easy.
Sandman And, predictably, you snipped all of the post (Snot "educated" you well) where you could have shown that OSX...
You know, the very task you OSX fanbois have been dodging for weeks.
Sandman Your reading comprehension problems kick in again. He did not say that OSX can't handle shell scripts. He mentioned a specific task. An extremely simple one...
Face it; you can't do it. You might be able to achieve the exact same thing using the exact same methods, but there goes the crap your side spews about ease of use - if it's the same thing, done the same way, it's not easier, now is it? Right. But you know your GUI just can't cope, so OSX loses completely on this one.
BTW - when I go to the developer site, I'm not generally looking for packages - I have a repository for those, one which helps ensure the developer hasn't accidentally broken something. Nope, what I'm after is sources. Currently, every software component of my system at work and at home has source available. OSX offers that, too, right? So I can tailor my GUI, my kernel, whatever I like? That *is* what developer sites are for, after all... repositories handle the usual updates.
OSX *does* give us that additional flexibility and makes it easier than what we're doing now, right? Right? Didn't think so.
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 3216
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