12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
5:05 a.m.
On 11 December 2011 14:32, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 11, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Ahahaha! Well, true. But it's changing. Don't forget that Mac OS X is
officially UNIX?, as approved by the Open Group. And it's the most
widely-licensed UNIX? there has ever been, either in terms of numbers
of users or in terms of number of systems. I suspect that its sales of
several hundred million licences means that it has outsold /all/ other
commercial Unices there have ever been /put together/.
(That's excluding the rather greater number of iPhones, iPads and iPod
Touches, which run the same core OS with a different GUI.)
And yet it's very friendly. Arguably the friendliest, most accessible
modern desktop OS.
Also, it might amuse ClassicCompers to know that there is now a
community of people interested in running "classic" early versions of
OS X on older Macs, especially PowerPC Macs. Our own Cameron Kaiser
being something of a hero in this regard. ;?D
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A friend who rented a room off me for a couple of
years wa s the first
to say this to me. I would often go to him with Linux problems and
queries and it took him quite some time to wrap his head around the
idea that I was powerfully averse to scripting and coding. It is very
alien to the Unix mindset, which is, yes, by programmers for
programmers. This makes it sometimes very unfriendly to
non-programmers.
Or, as the saying goes: "Unix is plenty user-friendly, it's just picky about who
its friends are."