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
Apache,, php, mysql will all run on windows, the point is Linux is a nice mix between the power that a mac has with the hardware price of a PC. If I use a Mac for my web, mail, ftp, ... server then I have to think before I hammer it or play around (what will this do to sendmail...??
The reason I would use Apple and not Linux is for the UI (though Gnome ad KDE are comming along nicely the NEXT component of OSX is the best UNIX UI out there. I dont need a UI for basic web services, but yes the system itself can do anything Linux/UNIX can do cause it it Unix... I for kicks set up OpenDarwin on a PC and tried to get KDE to look like osX but Im not a huge BSD guy..