> 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 [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> 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) > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
