Linked by the_randymon on Fri 25th Jan 2013 09:21 UTC
After about a year of work, the ArchLinux distribution now offers a variant running on the FreeBSD kernel. Says the developer, "Why would I do this? If like me, you enjoy FreeBSD and love it, but also like the philosophy behind Arch Linux, which is a fast, lightweight, optimized distro, I figured why not combine the both. Even though you could just do it on FreeBSD using the ports, not everyone wants to compile." This now puts Arch in the same category as Debian with Debian GNU/KFreeBSD, which offers a Debian userland on top of a FreeBSD kernel.
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RE: might be more interesting the other way...
by kwan_e on Fri 25th Jan 2013 16:26
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RE: might be more interesting the other way...
by MOS6510 on Fri 25th Jan 2013 17:59
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RE[2]: might be more interesting the other way...
by MacMan on Fri 25th Jan 2013 19:22
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Because Apple marketing prefers OS X.
Yeh, of course, but why isn't Stallman pitching a b!@tch over OSX not being called GNU/OSX like he is with Linux?
Now that I think about it, emacs (which is a fantastic program) and gcc (also great) run just about everywhere, including Windows. So, shouldn't Windows with Cygwin also be called GNU/Windows according to Stalman?
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by jigzat on Fri 25th Jan 2013 21:12
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by tylerdurden on Fri 25th Jan 2013 22:13
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by MacMan on Sat 26th Jan 2013 01:32
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Can you even compile the Linux kernel without gcc or gnu's c library(es)?
Yes you can:
http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Mark_Charlebois.pdf
And if I recall correctly, the first versions of Linux were developed on Minix.
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by Drumhellar on Sat 26th Jan 2013 01:43
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Clang will build the Linux kernel, though it doesn't (yet) work well.
Intel's compiler works really well for building the Linux kernel, or at least used to be a few years ago. I'd be surprised if that has changed.
And, there are other C libs that work. For example, uClib is designed to have a tiny footprint.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
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With BSD userland running on the Linux kernel.
From a practical standpoint, the Linux kernel is quite a bit more advanced than the BSD kernel.
And with a BSD userland, maybe we could get rid of all this Stallman GNU/Everything BS.
On a side note, why is GNU user supposed to be all that much beter that BSD? Personally, everyday I flip between my MacBook (10.6), Ubuntu 12.10 and RHEL, and on all of them, I spend 90% of my time in emacs and gcc.
So, I guess even though emacs and gcc are GNU programs, Stallman does not feel the need to call MacOS GNU/MacOS even though one uses emacs and gcc. MacOS also has other goodies like GNU grep, bison, and so forth, but we still don't have to call it GNU/MacOS.
Now Linux on the other hand, we have to, according to Stallman, call GNU/Linux. Why? MacOS and Linux have the same suite of GNU programs. The differences I can tell, are that some other programs like ls as well as the c library were developed by GNU on Linux and the BSD folks on OSX. Thus brings up another question, MacOS uses BSD userland, so why don't we have to call it BSD/MacOS?