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The platform as an anvil
| | Interesting DaveNet about OS X being both UNIX and MacOS. It's amazing how far Apple has come since they released the public beta. I'm very curious about know how much influence the hackers have had on changes both to the company and the OS. There's a new public license, an X86 image, and a hacker community working on Darwin well outside the Apple orbit, within which the bug list (among other things) makes interesting reading. I sense that stuff is going right here. Very encouraging to see the conversational innards of the developer community exposed like this. |
| | My own experience with OS X so far is that, in the UNIX tradition, the OS itself is apparently crashproof (bug list nothwithstanding), but nearly every app that runs on it crashes away, same as ever — but... without bringing the box down. The last time I brought up a shell and typed "uptime" at the promt, I saw we we're at two weeks or so. No reboots so far. Kinda isolates the problems, no? |
On (also in and through) the air again
| | I'm flying up to San Jose for just long enough to stay off the blog for most of the day. But I hope I'm back in time to contribute something to today's Linux Show, which should roughly be around the whole Fear & Fudding thing. |
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