> 2. Mac OSX is proprietary even down to the hardware. That is enough for > me to not use it. I gave up the whole IBM/SUN/SGI/HP fiasco of closed > door unix and hardware a decade ago. Wow :) Maybe you need to re-visit Sun gear again, OpenSolaris, OpenCluster are only but a subset of the unix tools that Sun have provided to the OSS community. Although, as a desktop, SX (Solars Express) is as freindly as you will currently get, hjopefully it will get better. However, IMHO, there is *no* better OE than Solaris (Except maybe Slackware), given the choice, Solaris every time, just cannot beat the scalability and robustness of the OE :) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/