I stand corrected…

January 27, 2006 on 1:50 am | In Geeky | No Comments

OK it’s been pointed out to me that in an earlier post I said:

MacBook Pro is the ultimate *nix laptop

It has been pointed out by a pedantic Solaris fan that this statement is not true and was convinced enough that a correction is required. So without further ado: OS X is not *nix but a *nix-alike – it is built around a version of the Mach kernel and the Darwin operating system is based on BSD but the system cannot be classed as a full *nix. On this basis, my statement that the MacBook Pro is the utlimate *nix laptop is wrong and the title clearly belongs to the Sun Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation (if slow, big and ugly = ultimate to you that is!).