Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Nov 2008 22:56 UTC
Saturday November 8, I received an email from someone, inquiring if I would be interested in "doing a first interview/introduction into a new operating system". We get these emails and news submissions all the time, and most of the time, "new operating system" means Ubuntu-with-a-black-theme, so we don't bother. I figured this time things wouldn't be different, but after a bit of digging around, there's a little more to it this time.
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2006-05-09
Why not?
The UNIX-like "personality" of Linux is given by two factors: its POSIX interface and its GNU tools; the POSIX interface is not a big deal, because a lot of non-unix OSes implement it [including Windows in some way] and the GNU tools, are built in userland. Removing the GNU tools or developing a parallel set of tools instead of them, creates a brand new operating system with a totally different personality (let's see the case of MacOSX)