Comment As long as it doesn't break the fundamentals... (Score 5, Insightful) 798
Apple is doing a good thing here is shaking up the administrative and setup side of the UNIX world. Most of their work was actually NeXT's, but their "Application as directory" concept is wonderful in a lot of ways, and their reorganizing of the filesystem so that it makes more sense to users is probably a good move in the long run.
What makes UNIX superior for management and power-users is the ability to do everything you need to from command-line tools and options, and the fact that the storage for configuration is in understandable, alterable files. If those are still there...if I can still run my Apple from the shell--I'm a happy man.
The only exception to this would be cases where a vendor deliberately makes a deviation simply to introduce incompatibilities. I don't see that as the case here.
What makes UNIX superior for management and power-users is the ability to do everything you need to from command-line tools and options, and the fact that the storage for configuration is in understandable, alterable files. If those are still there...if I can still run my Apple from the shell--I'm a happy man.
The only exception to this would be cases where a vendor deliberately makes a deviation simply to introduce incompatibilities. I don't see that as the case here.
