My favorite falsehood programmers believe is probably that Linux is Unix and macOS isn't Unix.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 23:57:36 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ -
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:06:33 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @alda People love to believe things and hate to think about things
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:06:35 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @thomasfuchs Also, a surprisingly large group of people (who are actually not that stupid) think macOS is some form of Linux.
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Martijn Frazer (tijn@dosgame.club)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:10:28 JST Martijn Frazer @thomasfuchs It will always weird me out how people think they can have opinions on facts.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:11:00 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @alda What if... they are the sick people
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:11:01 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @thomasfuchs Ah yes, the Neurotypicals.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 02:01:00 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @T045T It’s not “more” of a Unix.
macOS is a direct descendant from the original Unix (from the late 1960s).
Linux is a Unix-like operating system, and is not a descendant from the original Unix.
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T045T (t045t@scl.zmb.cm)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 02:01:06 JST T045T @thomasfuchs TIL that, by some measures (like being listed on opengroup.org/openbrand/register), macOS is *more* of a UNIX than Linux is :D
I do remember some syscall or other tripping me up in university, because it behaved slightly differently on macOS than it did Linux. Cost me like half a day to puzzle that one out…
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 02:09:35 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @T045T Ah yes, that's a whole other bag of hurt, lol
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T045T (t045t@scl.zmb.cm)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 02:09:40 JST T045T @thomasfuchs you’re right of course.
I think I got Unix-ness and POSIX compliance mixed up in my head.In conversation permalink
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