1) Because I don't want to pay 170$ OSX for an OS and have to pay for upgrades...
2) Because I don't want to pay a ton of money for hardware for my personal webserver..
Mac is nice (and BTW mac is Unix, no need to differentiate) my wife loves her mac, but I love to tinker and OSX is not there yet..
Your $$$$ point is reasonable.
Yeah, I did the differentiation between Mac and Unix because I would imagine run it as O/S X and not as the Unix command line, I could be wrong. I use the Unix for Java, FTP and a few other Web-related services. I have checked out some of the Open Source programs I'm also trying to learn various X11 applications .
Sun will be releasing it's own "version" of Linux with the
Java Sun Desktop. It looks very interesting.
Especially project Looking Glass, it blew me away!
On your second point re: your personal webserver, Apache, JBoss and Tomcat are all standard with the mac and php and mySQL are already Open Source. Am I missing something [not sarcastic]? The only thing that prevents my from running webpages from my system is the blocked 80 port provided by my ISP [THAT is sarcastic].
I'm very satisfied with my Mac and Apple applications are perfect. IMHO, people perpetuate the myth of Apple application shortage.
Respectfully,
ONC