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Mac OS X Sessions at LinuxExpo

Posted by pudge on from the because-linux-is-just-a-synonym-for-unix dept.

h0tblack writes "The latest ADC Newsletter has details of a few sessions Apple are hosting at LinuxExpo in Paris in a couple of weeks. The sessions are: Mac OS X for the Linux Community, Mac OS X in Heterogeneous Environments and Mac OS X and Developer Tools. Shame that the first session clashes with the keynote from RMS ..." Yes. Shame.

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  1. I want to see.... by ike6116 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jobs kick RMS's ass. RMS can die for all I care, he is the leader of the kind of zealotism (Linux, Mac or otherwise) that I just can't stand. No not everything should be under the GPL, no the GPL isn't scripture, yes; the GPL sucks. If you want free, use one of the many other BETTER licences out there.

    --

    Are you secure enough in your masculinity to run 'man touch'?
    1. Re:I want to see.... by ceejayoz · · Score: 0, Troll

      Depends on your definition of "freedom".

      I consider "Free" software to be software you can do anything with - and that includes making proprietary changes. The original code is always available.

      Calling the GPL free is like calling mandatory voting freedom.

  2. Re:Good to see this by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 0, Troll
    There's a difference between Mac OS X running nix stuff and Windows running it. OS X is a version of Unix in its own right.

    There's no difference. An operating system being UNIX is determined by how POSIX compliant it is. When OS X was first release, even Windows NT was more POSIX compliant than it. I don't know if that's still the case. Anyway, academic arguments about what is or isn't unix gets us nowhere, it's technically irrelevant.

    Apple is encouraging the open source community, writing software for them (Safari rendering engine, Darwin)

    Huh? KHTML was written by the open source community, that's not Apple writing software for us, exactly the opposite. In the same way, Darwin was mostly FreeBSD, which was already open source. They've released practically no code they've written that wasn't simply modifications to something that was already open source.

    Write a program in Cocoa and it can be moved a lot quicker to another platform than most programs.

    Not true at all. Java maybe. Cocoa is not a cross platform set of APIs, nowhere near. Where is the reference implementation? Where is the implementation for Windows, or for Linux? GNUstep only implements the OpenStep APIs, not any of Apples own extensions.

    As for bugfixes requiring hardware, that doesn't really happen.

    Apple are constantly pushing up the system requirements for new OS releases. Once there is a significantly faster machine out from them, expect to see even more cycle-eating eye candy in MacOS. MacOS X is hardly usable on old iMacs, I've tried it. It wouldn't surprise me at all if in a few years the G4s were considered too old to run the latest versions of MacOS.