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How good is MacOS as a Unix development environment?

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shuttleboi

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I've been working with a lot Unices in my life (SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, AIX, HPUX, Linux, probably others). How is MacOS in terms of a Unix development environment? When I download source packages, will configure/make/make install work just fine usually?
 
Sure. For the most part.

It's not going to have the same compatability for open source stuff as most linux distros have, but for actual coding and such it should be fine.

According to Macheads Xcode is.. ah.. very good. But I don't know about that.
 
My experience with OS X has been mainly in poking around on XServe machines and I've had to do the regular PHP, MySQL, Apache, etc. installs. They've been pretty straightforward for the most part. Older versions of the OS had lots of odd compatibility problems, but things are a lot smoother now.
 
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