> 2. Mac OSX is proprietary even down to the hardware. That is enough for
> me to not use it. I gave up the whole IBM/SUN/SGI/HP fiasco of closed
> door unix and hardware a decade ago.
Wow :) Maybe you need to re-visit Sun gear again, OpenSolaris,
OpenCluster are only but a subset of the unix tools that Sun have
provided to the OSS community. Although, as a desktop, SX (Solars
Express) is as freindly as you will currently get, hjopefully it will
get better. However, IMHO, there is *no* better OE than Solaris (Except
maybe Slackware), given the choice, Solaris every time, just cannot beat
the scalability and robustness of the OE :)