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   Message 827 of 1,512   
   Timberwoof to Steve Hix   
   Re: OsX compared to Linux and BeOS   
   13 Feb 05 02:37:41   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, alt.os.linux.mandrake, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.redhat   
   From: timberwoof@stimpberawoofm.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Steve Hix  wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  Kier  wrote:   
   >   
   > > >   
   > > > so that leaves macosx.  it's easy to set up and administrate.  and yes,   
   > > > it is very stable.  i've been using it since 2001, and i've had only two   
   > > > hard crashes in all that time, both years ago.  every once in a great   
   > > > while the finder will get confuzzled, but macosx restarts it, and   
   > > > everything is fine again.  definitely a good choice for those who cannot   
   > > > in good conscience use microsoft products, which should be everybody, if   
   > > > you ask me.   
   > >   
   > > Yup. But why be confined to Macs, when there's Linux, and FreeBSD, ready   
   > > to go.   
   >   
   > What's this "confined" notion?   
   >   
   > Linux and FreeBSD, and other BSDs, run on Macs, too.   
      
   So what? Unix and similar operating systems were designed to work on many   
   different architectures.   
      
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