[geeks] q: good source for leather book bag?

nate at portents.com nate at portents.com
Wed Jun 3 15:52:55 CDT 2009


>> The thing is, Leopard *IS* UNIX,
>
> Perhaps.  You may note I was careful to write "Unix", not "UNIX".

[snip]

> OSX is not Unix at the sysadmin layer, despite being UNIX, any more

[snip]

> And I still stand by my stance that Darwin is not a BSD.

And you've illustrated one of the big problems with
UNIX/Unix/Linux/BSD/distributions - it's kind of a mess.  I think the
chart says it all:

http://www.levenez.com/unix/

You've shown how hard it is to have a conversation about it without
splitting some very fine hairs - differing letter cases on identically
lettered words implying different meanings one of which has no formal
definition but rather an implied operational definition that only people
who work in that field would ever pick up on.

Curiously, I think this un-coordinated overly bifurcated giant glob of
software lubering through time indirectly supports Microsoft.  Until all
this "Unix" stuff unifies, streamlines and simplifies the families, we
will have Microsoft be dominant.

- Nate



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