[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

[Bowie J. Poag]

Hey Eric,

Exactly.

Darwin/x86 is to 2008 what Linux was to 1998.  If I were a kid just 
starting CS in college these days, i'd make Darwin my favorite sandbox, 
not Linux. Linux has grown so far away from its origins that it has 
become a convoluted mess under the hood, overgrown with SELinux and PAM 
vines that you have to take a machete' to if you want to do anything 
really *core* Unix.. Being close to the copper is a valuable experience, 
and that experience is easier to have in Darwin nowadays than it is in 
mainstream Linux distribs.

Off the topic, but...One of the "final straws" that made me want to look 
into OSX was the fact that Ubuntu x64 (iirc) apparently had NFS compiled 
*as a kernel module*...Just absolutely unnecessary, convoluted, and 
dumb. Some might argue its an evolutionary step. I would argue that so 
is growing an arm out of your butt. What matters is if the step makes 
any sense.

Cheers,
Bowie






Eric M. Gearhart wrote:
> Chris - OS X is still UNIX though! Under the hood of OS X beats 
> Darwin, a FreeBSD like userland...
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) for full 
> details
>
> --
> Eric
> http://nixwizard.net
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