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Originally Posted by f1nn
Mac is just another *nix
is'nt it? 'Darwin' etc...
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Under the hood, it is, with a whole lot of Mac customization. I didn't have too much trouble learning to admin a Mac server coming from a *nix background. The licensing is opposite of Linux, though. Whereas with Linux the only restriction is that you're not allowed to create restrictions on others, Mac is thoroughly proprietary and in fact will not run without a special Mac license chip on the motherboard.
That's part of the perfect integration of Mac - you won't have any driver issues with Mac because they build the only allowed hardware. On the other hand, it means even though I own a Mac server, I'm not allowed to run that fully licensed copy as a virtual machine. So that's different from most POSIX operating systems.
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