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dodona
its true that MacOS is more "unix-like' than Linux because of UNIX certification. On the other hand totally unrelated Z/OS, BS2000 and other proprietary mainframe OS'ses also have posix certification. That's it and that's all either.
Under the hood MacOS keeps the user far away from the BSD cellar. The typical macos user runs very proprietary gui apps on very proprietary hardware, and only a small minority installing UNIX related services, libraries, X11, vi, emacs and so on, however that's not part of the MacOS culture, which is more windows a-like restricted, limited, not to say even worser capitalism than M$. Furthermore MacOS hat nothing to do with the classic UNIX approach of free and open, sharing and open community. Just the opposite is true. Running MacOS is like Ricky Rich living on a lonely island.
That's really nonsense.
Sorry.
I use UNIX tools on MacOS every day and so do most MacOS users I know.
Just because MacOS has a great GUI, does not mean that the underlying Darwin OS is "not good" and "not UNIX"..... just because MacOS has a great UI, that has nothing to do with the underlying OS, which is as much "UNIX" as is any other modern "UNIX" OS.
I will close the thread, per the forum rules.
I don't have time to moderate "MacOS is NOT really UNIX" nonsense.
Of course MacOS is based on UNIX and, as a matter of great fact... the largest UNIX user base in the world at this time, and for the past many years, are MacOS users.
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Arguing "OS Purity" is no different, or little different, than arguing "ethic purity" ... or "racial purity" ..... it is a divisive discussion with no purpose other than to be divisive.
That is why we have a long established forum rule to not have these kinds of "religious" and "divisive" discussions here at unix.com.
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Rule (2) No negative comments about others or impolite remarks. Be patient. No BSD vs. Linux vs. Windows or similar negative threads.
This rule certainly includes "OS purity" kind of divisive discussions and negative, biased opinions about operating systems.