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Last night when I instinctively typed 'man ascii' on OSX and it came up with that man page, and when I do 'ls -lsh |sort -n' to sort files by size _and_ also ha
by kokey 14y ago
Last night when I instinctively typed 'man ascii' on OSX and it came up with that man page, and when I do 'ls -lsh |sort -n' to sort files by size _and_ also have the human readable sizes visible, I keep being reminded that OSX is still very much BSD under the bonnet, for me.
- Nursie 14y agoThat's just the userspace on top of the kernel though, not the OS (IMHO), though it's difficult to decide where to draw the line. By your measure Debian/kFreeBSD could well be linux... I know OSX is a valid and real UNIX, and the kernel is a mach/BSD hybrid, I'm just not sure I'd count it as a BSD when the question is 'Why is linux more popular than BSD?'. IMHO the question implies Open/Net/Free/Whatever BSD, not OSX. What makes OSX popular is a whole variety of things, many quite separate to the things people find appealing (or not) about the BSDs. IMHO, YMMV, etc etc
- fleitz 14y agoBSD is an operating system, Linux is a kernel, checkout the FreeBSD / OpenBSD / Darwin sources and you'll find a complete OS in the source tree. Debian/FreeBSD isn't linux because it doesn't use the Linux kernel. I think there is more question as to wether most Linux distributions are Linux or GNU/Linux than whether Debian/FreeBSD is Linux. Hopefully RMS doesn't read this comment.
- Nursie 14y agoIf BSD is an OS then I don't think OSX is a flavour of BSD... I don't disagree with any of what you're saying there, I just think it's a very grey area where you have multiple kernels and userlands, some of which are fairly easily interchangeable. And yes, most linux distro's are GNU/Linux (or at least something/linux) where Android/Linux is quite distinct.