A couple of thoughts: OSX is a dreadful wrong example. If you polled 1 million Mac users and asked them 'what OS runs under the hood?', my guess is 95% would have no idea what you are talking about. Secondly, throwing vague statements out about the 'shortcomings of linux' is at best non-helpful, and at worst discredits you. I am a Software Engineer, and it irks me to no end to have to retain N different tool/command sets in my memory for no good reason. Whether you like it or not, Linux (and to a lesser extent, the various BSD dialects) are what most folks know and are comfortable with. Presenting them with yet another flavor of Unix, with a command/tool set that is too distant is going to result in the person walking away and settling for redhat/ubuntu/debian or whatever. I kind of hinted at this in an earlier post - if I didn't have to use OI or some flavor of OS to get ZFS for my SAN, I would have gone elsewhere like a shot. BSD and Linux are pretty close when most of the commands are considered - OS is much less so, and that is what is going to relegate it to a niche system unless something changes. And no, I'm not an opposing fanboy or basher, just a realist...
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