Canuck57 wrote:
> "Greg Menke" <gusenet@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:86r6cd5832.fsf@apshai.pienet...
>> Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> writes:
>>
>>> On May 6, 6:18 pm, Chris Mattern <sys...@sumire.gwu.edu> wrote:
>>>> On 2008-05-05, Ramon F Herrera <ra...@conexus.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The best server OS in the history of computing, together with the best
>>>>> desktop.
>>>> Yes, but what would Apple contribute?
>>>>
>>> (1) The best desktop OS
>> lol!
>>
>> In its own way OSX is as miserable as Windows. Which would be fine if
>> it wasn't also so weird on the command-line. Leopard is a lot better
>> than prev editions but theres a LOT of weirdness in OSX. Authentication
>> & daemon management to name two are bizarre, poorly or undocumented and
>> quite user-unfriendly- the XML you have to wade through in OSX is a real
>> PITA- and don't get me started on how obnoxious Finder is.
>
> XML is permeating Solaris too. And I think it stupid. Up until Solaris 8
> there was not a tangent in Solaris development, it seemed UNIX like all the
> way.
>
> In Solaris 9 there was a hint of trouble to come. More have and
> "directoryserver" to start LDAP. Now no self respecting UNIX guru would
> create a command that long. A sign of newbees at the OS development table.
>

I suppose you would have preferred something like
lqp \/!x;z?/
Definitely more "Unix like". The trouble is, people have to read it and
type it; hopefully without error!

If you had to type "directoryserver" five or six times a day, I could,
maybe, understand the hardship. It seems to me, though, that it's
something that would go in a startup script somewhere and be forgotten.