[Discuss] GNU/Linux Distro for Mac?

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Seems to be obvious to everyone but Richard.


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > John Abreau wrote:
> >>
> >> Nope, sorry, that's completely irrelevant to the subject of this thread.
> >> To argue that FreeBSD desktops are better than Linux desktops, when you
> >> really mean just the MacOSX desktop, is disingenuous at best . It serves
> >> only to muddy the conversation and  derail the conversation.
> >
> >
> > Claiming that OS X isn't a Unix desktop is the disingenuous thing.
> > Proprietary or no, it is a Unix desktop as much as NeXTStep (being the
> > direct successor to NeXTStep) or the CDE or the IRIX Interactive Desktop.
>
> As far as I can tell, you are the first person to use the word "UNIX"
> in this discussion thread so I'm not sure why you brought it up.
> They are claiming that there is a difference between a FreeBSD and
> MacOSX desktop, but that seems pretty obvious to me.
>
> Bill Bogstad
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