OSX is ?

Is MacOSX BSDish, Unixish? Where's best to post?

Good question. While OS X is based upon BSD, there are some very important differences. If DevShed has C#/Windows sections, than maybe at some point they can generate an OS X section, especially with all of the PHP/Perl etc development happening on the OS X platform.

Actually, if the differences aren't too great I'd personally prefer to not have a separate section.
Mac users have spent years out in the wilderness of Macdom :-) so I'd prefer to just post stuff in here; and learn stuff from people who've been using *nix for years.
Actually, I develop locally on OSX and run my server on Linux, and as far as installations and so forth are concerned the differences aren't too problematic especially with 10.2.

OS X is Darwin, a BSD build.

...a perfect balance for my needs. I run all Unix based servers execpt for a single NT box we still have in the office as a file server. However, now being in tech management, I need Powerpoint and other "brand name apps".

So I can do all my development locally, plus I get Photoshop, (GIMP is good, but not a photoshop killer), GoLive, and other such programs along with native Unix.

Best of all I can still run Windows the way it was ment to be run, from a window via VirtualPC. So its been the best of all worlds for my use.

i always been interested in macs cause of the power and speed that they claimed to have, does OS X mean that i can sit in to it and run away like normal from the command line they way i do in linux and freebsd? or are the differences to great for that?

I use my Mac to run my testing server. The actual server is Linux. Inside Terminal you can run the command line as you are used to. Especially with OS10.2, most installs run without a hitch. The X11 system is available too. Also there is a debian-like system called Fink.

As for speed, probably now Macs lag somewhat but the difference should not be too great. Also you can run other great software like Photoshop etc.

There was an OS X section at one point but it received very little traffic. I don't know when it got deleted but it's no real loss, the current selection of forums seems adequate, the only stuff I can think of that will fall outside of that scope is stuff like Applescript.

Hmmm, Applescript. I can see that forum getting lots of posts

Personally, I have been using the standard forums here for a long time to ask my questions about Apache, (Free)BSD, PHP, and others, even though all my development is on Mac OSX.

The guts of Mac OSX are darn close to FreeBSD so that much of the information and instructions work really well. For example, I used an Orielly article about creating user CRON jobs for BSD and it worked flawlessley with my Mac (I now have little crontab jobs doing all sorts of things behind my PHP sites for cleanup). I also followed the BSD instructions for compiling a CLI version (command line interface) of PHP to run my little cron jobs with.

I say, mix all Mac OSX development questions in this and other forumns. You'll get more answers, for one, and other developers will get more exposure to OSX developers and will start to see folks like us as "just one of the boys/girls".

My two cents.

Jon

i can now see myself buying a mac as an alternative to a pc, just because it comes with a version of unix. man i hate windows

here's a thread that deals with this exact question. you need to read it from the beginning - last messages are a bit off track!

http://forums.devshed.com/showthrea...15&pagenumber=1