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A Mac isn’t general purpose ... or generic. It’s bespoke as hell.

• mr_toad 9y ago
  Ironically it’s usually easier to install and use open source software on macOS than in Windows, since most of it is developed for Linux, and the Mac version of Unix is close enough to make ports easy.
  • jchb 9y ago
    macOS, also the latest version High Sierra, is even certified Unix [0]. Mac has non-standard hardware yes, bespoke software hell yes, but also pretty good standard compliance when it comes to the lower level system interfaces - lower level as in below the various high level frameworks such as the UI toolkit Cocoa. The Linux Standard Base is a superset of POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface [for Unix]), with some small incompatibilities [1] [0] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ [1] ISO/IEC TR 24715:2006 Technical Report on the Conflicts between the ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX) and the Linux Standard Base http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ - there is probably a newer version of this report but that is not freely available
  • billsix 9y ago
    And how is that ironic, Alanis Morissette?
    • billsix 9y ago
      Irony could be closed source software on Linux or the bsds. Comparing FLOSS on windows vs osx seems silly to me.