I'm not surprised Apple isn't fond of linux.  They want people to buy their hardware and their OS.  They want to control as much of the user's experience as they can.  Look at how they restrict what someone can do with an Iphone they own.  An Iphone owner has to have their phone jailbroken so they can run the software on it they choose.  Apple doesn't want users replacing the batteries in their iphone and ipads.  They're replacing the screws with ones they had custom made so you can't find a screwdriver at the hardware store.  Follow the money.  There's more money in it for them if you have to buy their hardware, their software and can't even get the bloody thing open to replace a battery without paying them to do it.

On 11/21/2011 10:08, Kevin Fries wrote: 

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 09:54 -0700, Derek Trotter wrote:

So there shouldn't be any problem making the mac talk to everything
else on the network.  The mac uses samba.  The linux box does too.
The mac and the linux box understand cups.  Am I right in my
understanding that the Mac os is just BSD unix with the apple gui
running on top of it?

Essentially,  So Mac will natively understand Cups and NFS.  Cups many
years ago was maintained by HP (though for some reason it kills them to
admit it), but was taken over by Apple.  Apple not only talks the open
printing protocol, it is the corporate sponsor, last I saw, and
therefore was essentially maintaining it.

Apple system and Linux systems are in some ways very simpatico with one
another, and in other ways very adversarial.  In a network environment,
Apple prefers Apache for web serving, Postfix for mail delivery, and
LDAP for central user authentication (though there is another central
admin service, Apple generally prefers LDAP).

Apple achieves this level of Linux harmony because at it heart, is a
core derived from NextSTEP which was in turn derived from large portions
of FreeBSD and NetBSD.  All the more reason why Apples antagonistic
behavior torwards Linux is puzzling.  When going to battle in market
dominance with Microsoft, you would thing they would do more to embrace
its brother, not diminish it...  But a brother it is, and therefore,
many of its systems come from the exact same parentage.

Kevin

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