> "It also happens to be a Mac, with an operating system that looks nice and doesn’t suck"
Yes Apple has some of the best hardware out there, albeit overpriced. But the software is such a hindrance and I can't take anyone that states otherwise seriously. If only it had proper Linux support (and the Asahi people do an amazing job but you can reverse-engineer only so many stuff with limited funding, and then you have to do it again for new models). MacOS is good if you just want to have a standard experience, which to be fair is most people. It's good for just setting up an LLM server I guess since the hardware is a perfect fit. I wouldn't touch it otherwise.
Strictly speaking, Apple cannot. macOS as-shipped cannot complete the UNIX v3 certification test suite until you:
disable System Integrity Protection, enable the root account, enable core file generation, disable timeout coalescing, mount any APFS partitions with the strictatime option, format your APFS partitions case-sensitive (by default, APFS is case-insensitive, so you’ll need to reinstall), disable Spotlight, copy the binaries uucp, uuname, uustat, and uux from /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin and the binaries uucico and uuxqt from /usr/sbin to /usr/local/bin, set the setuid bit on all of these binaries, add /usr/local/bin to your PATH before /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, enable the uucp service, and handle the mystery issues listed in the four Temporary Waivers.
kokonokko1337 · · focus · HN ↗
Yes Apple has some of the best hardware out there, albeit overpriced. But the software is such a hindrance and I can't take anyone that states otherwise seriously. If only it had proper Linux support (and the Asahi people do an amazing job but you can reverse-engineer only so many stuff with limited funding, and then you have to do it again for new models). MacOS is good if you just want to have a standard experience, which to be fair is most people. It's good for just setting up an LLM server I guess since the hardware is a perfect fit. I wouldn't touch it otherwise.
steve1977 · · focus · HN ↗
I get it on Windows systems, at least when someone wants to use Linux-type tooling. But macOS already supports pretty much all of that natively?
RunSet · · focus · HN ↗
For starters, the source code.
steve1977 · · focus · HN ↗
Apart from that, for the UNIX part, the source is available for quite a few components:
<a href="https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions
notably also the kernel
<a href="https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
throw0101c · · focus · HN ↗
Strictly speaking, Apple can claim to ship a UNIX® operating system:
* <a href="https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm
* <a href="https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/" rel="nofollow">https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
bigyabai · · focus · HN ↗