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The problem I have with MAC OSX is that I can not do what "I" want to do. Yes yes, I understand the 'security' issues, but what apple fails to understand is the need for deversity, these OS's at some point need to be tweaked. AND somebody WILL.
If you want to get 'under the hood' and tinker, there's nothing stopping you. Open terminal and you're away. Use the 'sudo su' command to give yourself ultimate root access (i.e. it isn't automatically revoked after the command) and then trash the system to your heart's content. Or fix it. Or tweak it. Or whatever.
I have loads of stuff running or available on my mac that was only possible through messing around at the command line. This includes some X11 apps that have no OS X binaries, MySQL and a customised Apache2, and some messing with printer drivers. There was nothing preventing me from doing this - at the end of the day OS X is just another *nix system - but it's not all possible through the GUI. This is how it should be.
The top layer is there for day to day use, and to make it easy for new people to get into the system and use it. It's there for people who don't want to know how it all works to be productive, and a way for those who DO know how it works to hide it when it's not required. Crack open your command shell, read up on some BSD basics and get stuck in - it's all good fun!