Devs should be testing on slow machines - Re: What versions of Linux (or UNIX) are good on old 486 boxes?

Those two statements do not have as much to do with one another as you seem to think; without installation statistics on noncommercial Unix variants, such as Linux, we have no grounds for anything but wild guesses as to whether OS X is "the most popular desktop Unix". At least not for values of "Unix" relevant to this thread. That's odd. The OS X install I know best - on my ex's iMac - has X. Two of the programs most often running there are games I wrote, which definitely use X. Perhaps you're thinking of an outdated version? What does "commercial success" have to do with it? I, for example, am running X under a Unix variant on at least a half-dozen machines that show up in nobody's statistics because everything on them is noncommercial open-source software, showing up in no company's sales statistics and not reported to anyone. Nor am I alone; at one of my workplaces there are more machines running such systems than those running commercial OSes and at the other it's close enough to half that I'm not sure which has the majority. Nobody knows how those stack up against commercial variants, because the nature of the open-source noncommercial world means the necessary statistics do not exist. Not only is no-one keeping them, no-one is in a position to keep them. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B