> I just came back from looking as OS X at MEI. > Its looks great, seems to work great and has bunches of apps. > > Please set flames to low - I am just looking for the big picture here... > Can I run Linux stuff on this somehow? supposedly console stuff should work reasonably well (running in term windows). it's probably about as POSIX-compliant as many commercial unices. > Will X apps work with this somehow? you'll need an X server; even if you're running X on it. X can't grab the screen, since OSX's own display system controls that. Some applications have been ported to the native OSX display system, tho. > I know, I could dig on the net and work this out but I am just looking for a > quick Y/n? the overall answer is 'Sorta kinda sometimes'. My take on OSX is that technologically, it's wrongheaded. The display system beats everything that other unices have; but they put in on top of their own bastardized *NIX, for the sake of backwards compatibility with old Mac apps. it would be a lot better if the display system were ported to *BSD and linux, and generalized to allow different window managers, etc. from a marketing standpoint tho; it's a great idea. it has the backwards compatibility, so everyone's old favorite office applications will still run (and the updated versions will run natively); but it has forwards compatibility with the freenixes, for when we take over the world. :) once companies port their applications to run natively on OSX (and who doubts that Adobe will make Photoshop run on OSX?); it's not that far from there to the freenixes. Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700