review of Tiger and Unix/Linux

From: H. S. (g_reate_xcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/29/05

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    I was going over this review of Tiger:
    http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars

    and in the Launchd section came upon this interesting stuff:
    "Apple has developed launchd as an open source project that it hopes
    will be adopted by the wider Unix community. To the average Unix hacker,
    launchd probably looks like a reinvention of the wheel. I think it
    addresses a problem the Unix community doesn't even know that it has. In
    this way it's much like Mac OS X itself. There was "Unix on the
    desktop," and then there was Mac OS X. You'd think that alone would have
    been a big enough wake-up call."

    I like that "There was "Unix on the desktop," and then there was Mac OS X."

    ->HS 

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