Big Mac Hoax 2: "OS X is Unix
Yes, Virginia.
I remember the buzz in the Unix community when Apple announced the switch to Unix. (E.g. punch "paul graham" and "macintosh" in Google.) I think the OP has a point; I can't prove it of course, but my very subjective impression was that there was some effort on Apple's side to build cred among hackers and hacker-wannabes by touting the switch to Unix.
Apple won't even support Terminal.app or X11.app. The tech support folks I've spoken to are adamant and unequivocal on this point. When I installed X11, the first problem I noticed was that when I used Command-Tab to switch to X11, the X11 window would remain hidden behind other windows and would not gain the focus, even though it said "X11" next to the Apple icon. No amount of command-` would bring up the X11 window (xterm). This is not a problem that one will solve by reading man pages. Since then I have run into other similar problems resulting from poor integration of X11 with OSX, not to mention flakiness that results from imperfect porting of standard Unix commands (e.g. cp) to an HFS+ environment. Apple tech support won't even *hear* about these problems.
Snit, being humiliated by how ignorant he was shown to be with regards to the web industry, tries - in his own way - to resurrect some pride by working in his agenda in irrelevant news...
Whoever is tempted to think of Mac as "kinda like Linux but with support" is in for a rude surprise.
By that standard, Linux is awash in "support".
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