If you really knew what you were talking about you would know by now that Mac OS X is not a kludge of FreeBSD. Mac OS X incorporates programs and libraries from all the BSD flavors, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. And they were not kludged, they were worked out during 4 years to get to 10.0 and here we are now, 5 years after that release, so this OS has had some seriuos time to become what it is now: the best OS you can get right now.

As for the security patches, they come as needed and after 5 years out on the streets, I guess Mac OS X has proven that it is rock solid secure and this from the day to day use we, as users, have come to experiment, not some lame piece of FUD by folks who don't use it on a daily basis...

To even think that some to be discovered Unix flaw is remotely as dangerous as anything Windows users suffers day in day out is just wishful thinking.

Is it perfect? No, but it is close to it. Let's check next year and see if 2006 is the year of the Mac OS X exploit...

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