[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> On Jul 8, 2009, at 23:22 , Michael Parson wrote:
>
>>> Actually, I hear people all the time, even fairly green newbs, talk
>>> about Mac OS being UNIX and how that's a benefit.  I've also heard
>>> Apple Store personnel talking it up to customers quite a bit.
>>>
>>> But otherwise, yes, I see what you mean here.  Apple is classic for
>>> claiming things it didn't really do, or exaggerating what it did,
>>> and quietly removing "bad" information from the public mindset.
>>
>> I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but...
>>
>> I don't understand this argument against MacOS X being UNIX.
>
> Who was making that argument?
>
> Geoffrey was talking about how people don't know it is UNIX, not that
> it isn't UNIX.
>
> der Mouse was the one questioning if it was UNIX/UNIX(TM).

You're right, I misread your first paragraph up there as people
mis-claming Mac OS X being Unix.  A second read and I see that this was
not what you were saying. My apologies. :)

>> What part of your understanding of 'UNIX' is missing from OS X?
>
> You must be confused and replied to the wrong post, because I never
> said anything like that.

That was based on the above outlined mis-reading, I suppose it would
have been more appropriately aimed at der Mouse, and it seems he at
least took it as much as he and I have gone back and forth about that
subject a few times already.

> MacOS is not as close to the UNIX I started out on as NetBSD.  NetBSD
> is the closest thing to what I think of when I think of UNIX.
>
> However, I view my Mac system as a UNIX variation just like I do my
> FreeBSD, Solaris, and NetBSD systems, so I'm probably not the one you
> meant to respond to.

NetBSD is still my favorite.  My current system has been up for quite a while
now:

$ uname -a
NetBSD ultra 3.0 NetBSD 3.0 (BLORG) #2: Sun May  7 13:56:33 CDT 2006  root at ultra:/sys/arch/i386/compile/BLORG i386

$ uptime
  2:53PM  up 626 days, 23:12, 19 users, load averages: 0.20, 0.24, 0.24

I need to get off my duff and get this box's replacement up and running,
3.0 is quite old, and this hardware is starting to show its age.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org