Pear Linux OS bought by the iPhruity MFR?

[the86d]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/...ar-linux.html#.

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/401364/was-apple-involved-death-pear-os

Pear OS is no longer available for download.

Its future is now in hands of a company who wants to remain anonymous for the moment. The concept has pleased them it and now wants to continue and improve the system for their own products. I can not give a name but it is a very large company well known ...

[the86d]

I thought I'd check into the reasons why I can't do updates, and that is what I found...

This was the best distro I had ever used.

[XDRoX]

Maybe time to buy a Mac

[the86d]

Maybe time to buy a Mac

I don't think I could deal with this crappy naming scheme:
/dev/disk1s10, /dev/wd0b, or /dev/wd0d
As most Mac users don't know what that is...

Then again if I want to run Linux as the native OS, I might as well not spend 2-3x the money for it either.

[ocabj]

I don't think I could deal with this crappy naming scheme:
/dev/disk1s10, /dev/wd0b, or /dev/wd0d

How is that crappy? Are BSD disks and slices that much of a foreign device convention to Linux disk devices?

[the86d]

How is that crappy? Are BSD disks and slices that much of a foreign device convention to Linux disk devices?

Where the F is the MBR then?
Non-existant? Nope, MBR=Partition table=/dev/sda1, or /dev/disk1s1 isn't it?
Screw that.

Not something I need to dig into as I have always done /dev/?d?1=swap /dev/?d?2 = /boot, and /dev/?d?3=/... just sayin'.

I have Linux down pretty-well, and mac-servers are not really worth learning anyway... so I don't need to keep-up with a 3rd OS as ACMT < even GeekSquad skills!

[ocabj]

MBR? You mean the master boot record? You don't mount an MBR.

If you're asking what's the primary partition, then you'd df for it like you would in linux. diskutil for it if you need more info on local disks, which is probably the closest to lsblk that OS X has.

As far as whether or not an OS is worth learning, my group has to know everything since we deploy everything based on what's requested for a given application or service, or what is optimal for the problem at hand, whether it be Solaris, FreeBSD, some Linux variant, Windows Server, or OS X Server. We don't do OS certifications. We just learn everything on our own. Maybe we'll get some vendor support if we need it. But most of us came up within Open Source where you pretty much need to learn it all on your own.