It used to ship with tcsh as default, but now BASH is. There's also ksh and other options.
There's a few native terminal applications, plus, of course, you can always run xterm inside X11.
If you wanted to, you could even abandon 'Aqua' (the Mac OS X native GUI), boot to a command-line prompt, and start up X11 with KDE or GNOME, and you'd basically just have a slightly weird BSD box.
You do have some limits - Mac OS X people don't run around recompiling their kernels (although you could: the source is available), and most of the Aqua software is closed-source, or at least not trivially available as source code. On the other hand, there's a lot of Mac OS X software based on open source projects - the most popular non-Apple third-party IM client is based on libgaim, for example.
And finally, Mac OS X has a level of prettiness that Linux is only now just starting to come close to with the XGI stuff.
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Date: 2006-03-18 05:35 am (UTC)There's a few native terminal applications, plus, of course, you can always run xterm inside X11.
If you wanted to, you could even abandon 'Aqua' (the Mac OS X native GUI), boot to a command-line prompt, and start up X11 with KDE or GNOME, and you'd basically just have a slightly weird BSD box.
You do have some limits - Mac OS X people don't run around recompiling their kernels (although you could: the source is available), and most of the Aqua software is closed-source, or at least not trivially available as source code. On the other hand, there's a lot of Mac OS X software based on open source projects - the most popular non-Apple third-party IM client is based on libgaim, for example.
And finally, Mac OS X has a level of prettiness that Linux is only now just starting to come close to with the XGI stuff.