[oclug] Darwin UNIX & Yellow Dog Linux

[Ian! D. Allen]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:17:36PM -0500, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
> Has anyone had a chance to play with Darwin UNIX (supposedly based on 
> Debian, used for Mac OS X), and Yellow Dog Linux ?

I bought my family an iMac that runs OSX.
Yes, there's Unix under there!
I can ssh to the machine and get around fine.

Since Mac file names often have spaces, it's a great test to see if
you followed proper shell script quoting practices in your scripts.

Once running (after booting), it uses a central "NetInfo" database
instead of the usual separate /etc/passwd /etc/group (etc.) files,
and I miss not being able to grep things.  (Mind you, there is a nigrep
command that isn't awful.)

All the Mac programs use binary config and status files, which is
supremely annoying.  I forgot how much I depend on Unix to use ASCII
for everything.  I want to move some files in the iPhoto hierarchy,
and I can't because the config files are full of non-ASCII secrets.