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Mac OS X Leopard is Now Officially Unix

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thank-god-now-cat-will-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mac OS X Leopard is now officially Unix, according to the Opengroup." I know everyone out there was really worried about this one. Welcome to the August news vacuum!

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  1. *yawn* by IsItWashable · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Must be holiday time soon...

    1. Re:*yawn* by IsItWashable · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      How did you get modded more than the parent for that???

  2. GNU incompatability by GrEp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will Leopard fully support GNU binutils? More specifically will add2line work?

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  3. Re:Imagine... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Czarist Russia, *Nix-olas clusters you!

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  4. Re:I think its a major achievement by Gorbag · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If The Open Group is "making standards work" (TM), then who is Making Work Standard?
    Well, if you're in software development, it's The Wonderful Folks at CMU misinforming management everywhere that what is primarily an art is actually an assembly line. Nevermind undecidability... or efficiency for that matter. [But repeatability, oh yes, you have repreatability. I'm always writing the same code over and over. Not.] But hey, if it supports outsourcing, who wouldn't be for it?
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  5. Re:I think its a major achievement by nightcats · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heh, I've never had a problem with ruthless, on the rare occasions where it's joined with competence. But when you put arrogance and stupidity into one package, you've got yourself a typical middle manager, and the biggest problem in corporate America. Once in a blue moon I've met a geek fitting this description (usually a kid just out of college who thinks he can be CIO next week because of that CMU attitude you talked about), but overwhelmingly my experience with the guys writing the code is that they know their stuff, stay late, seek solutions, try to have fun, and never use email or Crackberries as weapons. And they don't act like assholes on Monday morning when we find out the app servers have hosed over the weekend (usually because they've known about it since Saturday night). And in my other tribute to geeks, I compare you guys to Harry Potter.

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