[Swordmaker]

OSX.4 Tiger Review

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[EagleUSA]

While I have been a PC geek for a long time, I still have done some work with a little G5 which I enjoy -- I am an ole UNIX buff from my early years in school and still enjoy it -- Apple made a good move basing the OS-X on Unix -- makes for a very powerful system. They still suffer from weak software support --

[IncPen]

You may want to share this with some of your IT friends...

[N3WBI3]

But why must I learn and spend valuable research time performing cryptic actions like these to implement and manage an assembly of UNIX systems?

Because if you know what you're doing this is faster than a wizard, or gui toolkit

[Uri’el-2012]

re performing what have traditionally been UNIX systems administration duties. As a geneticist, I’ve learned to “tail a log file,” “grep a TCP dump,” and “HUP a daemon

They are ordinary Unix user line commands.

Good article however!

[6SJ7]

...HUP a daemon

Isn't that how Pres. Clinton got in all that trouble?

[tubebender]

I tested my eleven-year old daughter’s (Tess) ability to install and configure the OS on bare-metal. Granted, she’s a bright eleven-year-old with daily experience on a Mac OS X desktop machine, but she has had no prior experience using the server software. She clicked the installer icon that rebooted the machine from the DVD, and after following the simple on-screen prompts, with a few button clicks the OS was installed on the local disk in 16 minutes.<

And now you know why I don't trust 11 year olds...