RE: [MLUG] what is IBM's linux?

[Benjamin H Shelton <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

>Not sure if the old Mac had anything unix-esque in it, I'm just
thinking back to the old NeXT crap.

No, nothing UNIX-esque about
it.  No kernel, no cooperative multitasking, crappy memory
management, and legacy 68k code run under emulation until
recently.  However, the Mac works very well when you're running
one stable program at a time.

NeXT was not crap.  NeXTSTEP is
still my favorite operating system out of all the old UNIXes, and
it runs great on old Pentium PCs.  It uses Display PostScript
instead of X (though X with Motif is available with CubX
Windows), and the GUI design is unrivaled.  It requires little
RAM and HD; 1 GB HD and 40 MB RAM is very comfortable, even with
many apps, dev tools, and CubX.  There are many freeware apps
available for NeXT that I still use now, like OmniWeb (now ported
to OS X) and the Lighthouse suite of design apps.  It'll cost you
quite a bit still, unless you manage to find a copy on Hotline by
doing a server search for nextstep at tracker-tracker.com (hint
hint).

  
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