Thread: An 'internet' tablet or a Linux computer?
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2008-10-22 , 17:19
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#50
Originally Posted by tso View Post
the way i see it, osx is a closed source DE running on top of a open source kernel. this means they could in theory toss it onto just about any unix like kernel in the future, without having to change much.
Not quite... The kernel was a unix kernel and was bought - not open source.. and the entire filesystem structure was completely changed. Nothing even looks remotely right when you drop to a terminal in Mac OS X. They didn't follow the FHS at all so far as I can tell..
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