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Ken Thompson, Co-Creator of Unix, Is Moving from Apple macOS to Debian GNU/Linux

• dekhn 4y ago
  he used a goobuntu desktop for years at Google. At some point he even joked that he had worked on the alpha or beta version of Linux.
• simonblack 4y ago
  Basically he's not really changing much, going from one flavor of 'Unix' to another flavor of 'Unix'. Overall, it's probably pretty much like moving from Sun's UNIX to HP's UNIX at some time in the 90s.
  • jrepinc 4y ago
    Well there is big change, going from one of the most closed and totalitarian systems to a free/libre and open system. One of the most important and meaningful changes one can do.
    • simonblack 4y ago
      Not really, the underlying structure of MacOS is BSD, which is also pretty much a free/libre system. It's the Apple GUI on top that's 'one of the most closed and totalitarian systems'. I've often suggested to the Softies that they 'do an Apple' and have the underlying structure of Windows be Linux, and just put the Windows GUI on top of that. They never listen. <grin>