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Linux and Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the unprecedented-is-five-syllables-long dept.

William J writes "Here is an article with an interesting slant on the relationship between the Mac OS and Linux. The author suggests that Gnome and KDE developers can learn from the Mac GUI. Worth quoting: 'It is amazing to me that an OS which was developed largely by volunteers (and which is essentially free) can run with unprecedented stability on the same hodgepodge of PC hardware on which another company has spent billions of dollars in R&D costs and is still unable to produce a product which can run for more than a few days without crashing -- and it costs hundreds of dollars.'"

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  1. macdot by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    why?

    so mac's use BSD code

    so does windows and we don't have "woo those windows boxes are so cool, I'm drooling" from the /. crew.

    Well we did when DiabloII came out..

    Wel in fact lets just change it do DosDot and have done

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  2. Re:Porting Aqua by Anonynnous+Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Because Apple is just another jackbooted corporate thug, and sues anyone who dares make anything that even sort of looks like Aqua. Which is why my credo remains "DEATH TO APPLE, DEATH TO THE MAC," despite their porting BSD and finally getting a real operating system.