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> Mac GNU There’s no such thing as "Mac GNU", since the userland and outermost kernel interface is of BSD lignage. Which does a double whammy on the "GNU/Linu
by lloeki 6y ago
> Mac GNU
There’s no such thing as "Mac GNU", since the userland and outermost kernel interface is of BSD lignage.
Which does a double whammy on the "GNU/Linux" pedantry, since the Linux-based system described above has only a very limited part of it that are actual GNU projects, or even GPL licensed.
That is, unless I’m mistaken and parent uses a system without Xorg, and only lives with bash, glibc, make, GCC, coreutils, and emacs. GNU/Linux is quite an ascetic system these days.
- jcelerier 6y ago> There’s no such thing as "Mac GNU", since the userland and outermost kernel interface is of BSD lignage. first thing I install on my macs are the gnu coreutils. bsd are so useless in comparison
- forgotmypw17 6y agoYou call it pedantry while writing a three-paragraph comment about why the term I used out of convenience and habit is not precisely correct. Bravo!