[funsec] mac is not unix [Re: What was that about hubris?]

Gadi Evron ge at linuxbox.org
Thu Oct 1 21:07:17 CDT 2009


der Mouse wrote:
>>> Pause to count number of good games on the mac.
> 
> s/ on the mac//  :-)
> 
>> But as it was explained to me by a very nice guy, an operating system
>> is built of three components.  The core, the GUI and the command
>> interface.  Of all these, only the last is Unix-based.
> 
> Well, I do believe Mac OS X is built along those lines.  "An operating
> system" in general may or may not be; indeed, plenty of operating
> systems do not have anything at all that could reasonably be called a
> GUI, much less structure like what you sketch.

Don't be nit-pickerish.



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