Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac
by currysausage on Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:31PM
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> Because OS X is linux based
Wait... what?
> (BSD but the difference is not relevant here)
Still, "Linux-based" is a funny way of saying "Unix-like". Is HP-UX also "Linux-based (System V but the difference is not relevant here)"? ;)
Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac
by TickleSteve on Friday October 03, 2014 @08:06AM
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Oh dear...
Its not even BSD-based...
Its Mach based(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)) with a BSD userland. (Read BSD-API). So its "BSD-based" in the same way as Windows is Posix-based (as it too can have a Posix userland API).
Linux != UNIX. BSD != OSX
The kernel is actually a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU for details.
Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac
by jrochkind1 on Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:44PM
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The word you are looking for is "unix".
I always got the feeling that installing Homebrew and running the associated apps that run under X but not natively under Quartz was a broken way to get apps on Mac OSX (unless it runs under Quartz now...?)
It feels like the "dirtying" of the native system in the same way that installing cygwin and a mingw and GNUWin32 on Windows does, just in order to get it more like Windows. Rather, I'd use the native utilities on the system and native compilers.
Is it just me who feels this way? Does any Linux user feel compelled to install Linux and then run software ONLY under Wine?
Because OS X is linux based (BSD but the difference is not relevant here), a lot already exists to make these kind of things work out of the box.
Personally, I need two things to have my setup working:
My dotfiles are on github and git can be installed via homebrew. I am using vim so my setup depend on both homebrew (git) & dotfiles (settings/plugins).I have no idea why I would need anything more than that to get started. But this is personal, your company needs may be different. But don't think you need some kind of automation, linux has powerful tools. Use them.