On 15 July 2011 08:53, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:
> This started out as a full page rant about the unintuitive Apple OS > and why we're still all - except MS - stuck with Unix this far into > the 21st century; but I've rewritten it and managed to boil it down to > the paragraph below... > "Stuck" with unix? This is wrong on several levels. - Linux isn't technically Unix, the heart of the fated SCO patent trolling was that OS wasn't paying to be licensed as such - Even acknowledging that Linux is unix-like, or unix-inspired, unix is best described as a family of operating systems, linked more by their functionality than by a common codebase - What you think of as Unix probably isn't Unix, just consider what's possible with cygwin... Bash isn't unix, nor is X, or Gnome, or KDE, or the android GUI, or Apple's quartz - Just for fun, windows is (or can be) Posix compliant - The unix-like OSs have evolved considerably since unix was first conceived > > I bought my first Mac computer this week. Whist I have a limited (but > working) knowledge of Unix, downloading and unpacking Eclipse has been > a total fail (it refuses to "unarchive" to the desktop, as per the > installation instructions). Unarchiving is not a function of your operating system > Can anyone recommend a useful book or web > site that gives a good advanced introduction (sic) to iOS? > Macs don't run iOS, they run OS-X iOS runs on iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] google+: http://gplus.to/thecoda <[email protected]>mail: [email protected] vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright twitter: @thecoda "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
