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<blockquote data-quote="moro" data-source="post: 13656"><p>Precisely! This is why I am posting here! Thanks for explaining me things that I knew in the first place.</p><p></p><p>umm. if Murlyn is right, that is, most mac os x users don't use the unix underneath, what is that unix bla, bla, bla and jargon that appears in apple.com page regarding the mac os x? Why intel is writing c and fortran compilers for the Mac OS X? Why are so many people porting programs in Unix to Mac OS X? Why is there something like "fink"?</p><p></p><p>I cannot believe that there is not anybody out there that has ever compiled a c/fortran program on the Mac OS X terminal... </p><p></p><p>If Murlyn is correct and nobody uses the unix in Mac OS X, I'm afraid I will never switch to Mac. Which is, by the way, the point of the following document in apple page:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/</a></p><p></p><p>Thus, apple is doing something just great (merging the MAC GUI and unix) and users don't mind.</p><p>One important thing I will balance when switching to MAC is the community. If there is no people using the unix underneath, good for them, but not for me, since I believed the following comment in apple documentation was right:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moro, post: 13656"] Precisely! This is why I am posting here! Thanks for explaining me things that I knew in the first place. umm. if Murlyn is right, that is, most mac os x users don't use the unix underneath, what is that unix bla, bla, bla and jargon that appears in apple.com page regarding the mac os x? Why intel is writing c and fortran compilers for the Mac OS X? Why are so many people porting programs in Unix to Mac OS X? Why is there something like "fink"? I cannot believe that there is not anybody out there that has ever compiled a c/fortran program on the Mac OS X terminal... If Murlyn is correct and nobody uses the unix in Mac OS X, I'm afraid I will never switch to Mac. Which is, by the way, the point of the following document in apple page: [url]http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/[/url] Thus, apple is doing something just great (merging the MAC GUI and unix) and users don't mind. One important thing I will balance when switching to MAC is the community. If there is no people using the unix underneath, good for them, but not for me, since I believed the following comment in apple documentation was right: [/QUOTE]
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