[OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

[Richard L. Hamilton]

On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

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> From: Richard L. Hamilton [mailto:rlhamil at smart.net] 
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 7:49 PM
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> On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
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>> Oh almost forgot.  No, it doesn't matter what runs under the hood when you
>> are dealing with a mass market GUI that isn't the point.  The point is
> that
>> someone mentioned that OSX uses *BSD under the hood like somehow that has
>> ANYTHING to do with getting more people away from linux.
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> Even a mass market GUI is more attractive for even an newbie user to use if
> it doesn't flake out as much because something better is underneath.
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> *** Quite true, but it could have, for example, a stripped down flavor of
> linux or plan9 or whatever...

IIRC, OS X almost had BeOS underneath instead…that would've been…interesting. Better? Worse?  Who knows…