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What's wrong with solving problems the unix guys already solved decades ago, and doing so less elegantly?
by deepfriedrice 5y ago
What's wrong with solving problems the unix guys already solved decades ago, and doing so less elegantly?
- thefz 5y agoExactly, this is the opposite of the unix way of doing things. Do only one thing and well, be nimble.
- capableweb 5y ago> this is the opposite of the unix way of doing things Which makes sense, this is an article for people on Apple hardware (judging by the installation instructions), so no interest in keeping things "the unix way of doing things"
- BoxOfRain 5y agoI have no dog in this fight (I use both Linux and macOS as daily drivers) but it could be argued that macOS has more of a claim to be Unix than Linux since the foundation of macOS comes from NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD whose codebases both ultimately descend from the original Bell Labs Unix, whereas Linux started life completely independently. I'd argue that Linux is more Unixy than macOS in terms of philosophy though, I remember reading that Dennis Ritchie considered Linux as much of a Unix as the other offerings on the market at the time which were the BSDs and commercial Unix variants; his opinion is obviously worth thousands of mine!
- dec0dedab0de 5y agoOSx is also Unix certified by the open group, along with hp-ux and aix. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
- joshuaissac 5y agoThere is a Linux distro in that list, too: Huawei's EulerOS, based on CentOS.