/tech/ - Technology

>>546014

Actually, BSD is more unix like than MAC OS X so fuck off nigger

i was already downloading openBSD right now to try it

but last time i tried booting freeBSD it was very old fashioned looking and i had no idea how to get the internet to work without access to the internet

>>546018

Well BSD is even more unix like than GNU+Linux and might be harder for newfags like you

>>546014

OS X is not UNIX.

It may have a certification of being UNIX-compatible, but the important aspects are very different.

UNIX was created as a portable operating system and pushed for simple but reliable design that is naturally extensible.

OS X is a walled garden locked to specific hardware where you are forbidden to touch things for your own safety and has an XML-based init system (so much for simplicity).

If anything, OS X is a regression in the field of operating systems.

>>546063

agreed

Because Unix is actually kind of shitty for modern computers. GNU tries to fix that.

>>546068

>GNU tries to fix that

gr8 b8 m8

>>546063

It's certified UNIX. Full certification.

>>546017

To be le tru unix you have to have a license from the Open Group. That's all there is to it. The original BSD was true UNIX, but its only derivative that has the license is OSx. But it's not like being le tru unix means anything in the current year. All the le tru unixes are fully proprietary, and all of them are proctically dead except for OSx which is dogshit anyway.

>>546063

http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

>>546580

>dogshit

It's god tier.

>>546633

Not UNIX

Because Linux works just like UNIX and that's good enough for me.

I've actually been thinking of giving FreeBSD a go, but I haven't had the time recently.

>>546206

That part of my post is objectively true, whether you think GNU actually manages to be better or not.

GNU adds easier to remember, more consistent long options, adds optimizations that vastly increase performance, favors correctness over simplicity (which shows up in fuzz testing), and so on. It doesn't try to be just like Unix, it tries to be better than Unix.

>>546633

Linux

Is

Not

Uni

X

Does openBSD support intel wireless chipsets? I'm guessing no :/

>>546695

GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix GNU is Not Unix

Because my DVD of mint refuses to install anything and just hangs on A black screen with "wait" in the top left.

>>546701

Gnu

Not

Unix

like that?

>>546701

No, that's not how it works. That's not a recursive expansion, you're just saying it a lot of times.

This is how it works:

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>>546014

I do use the Unix philosophy. Why don't you?