Wow Michael.. we should talk.
VAX/VMS and Fortran is what I worked with in the Navy for 8 years. Ah
yes, back in the day when hard drives were the size of truck tires.
Jeff
On 11/3/14 2:22 PM, Michael Crawford wrote:
I'm a frothing Unix geek (for about 40 years)
Heh.
I'm a frothing VAX/VMS Geek myself. I actually scored a FORTRAN
contract in 2006.
There _are_ some advantages to OS X over UNIX. One thing that has
always gotten me down about UNIX is that when one "installs" a new
program, it's likely to spew files all over G-d Almighty's Own
Creation. OS X GUI applications, and many other programs are all in
these newfangled "packages" - small directory heirarchies.
However, very few UNIX distros will permit the adoption of GnuStep - a
Free Software Cocoa Clone - for the specific reason that these
packages violate the Linux Standards Base.
I myself regard these packages as solving the Linux filesystem layout
problem, not screwing it up.
Apple has lots of mailing lists that you'd find useful, all at
http://lists.apple.com/ Stuff like darwin-kernel, darwin-drivers.
Everyone there is friendly to the UNIX folk.
Michael David Crawford
mdcrawf...@gmail.com
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan
Area.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Dave Horsfall <d...@horsfall.org> wrote:
On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Michael Crawford wrote:
There's lots of good stuff for developers.
[...]
Thanks; that's pretty much what I'm after.
I'm a frothing Unix geek (for about 40 years) who was attracted to the Mac
precisely because it ran FreeBSD (sort of), but I never ceased to be
amazed at how they've basically broken things that worked just fine, such
as /etc/fstab, /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/crontab, etc. They all seem to be
merged into one monolithic program that I find difficult to trust, yet
alone understand.
I'm very much a command-line freak, not a Gooey-freak.
--
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."
http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)
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