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Re:Apple Updates iMac by maaku on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @10:31AM (#6438116)
Interesting how you call OS X UNIX, as opposed to Linux.
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Re:Apple Updates iMac by AlexeyBrin on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @10:46AM (#6438206)
OS X is more close to his UNIX heritage than Linux.
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Re:Apple Updates iMac by bpaluzzi on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @11:40AM (#6438574)
If by "interesting", you mean "accurate"
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Re:Apple Updates iMac by maaku on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @11:57AM (#6438676)
By "interesting" I mean a BSD veneer over a Mach core is only marginally better UNIX compatibility than Windows Services for UNIX (also POSIX certified). Did you know you can call Mach directly to override basically all the UNIX emulation, including access permissions?
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Re:Apple Updates iMac by mikeash on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @10:49AM (#6438220)
Only one of them is POSIX certified. Hint: it's not Linux.
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Re:Apple Updates iMac by axman6 on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @09:09PM (#6442027)
Not sure why that's interesting, OS X is a UNIX system and completely unrelated to Linux...
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Re:Apple Updates iMac by melange on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @10:37AM (#6438149)
OSX is unix
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