Anonymous D, if you want anyone to understand you, you're going to have to spit out some of that horse semen.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 hour later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,894
Don't any of you get it? The guy is a super-hipster.
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,896
@previous (G)
As ultra-hipster as it may be, I can't find it in my heart to discourage the trend of dismissing Apple's OS as too mainstream.
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,931
OS X is easily the superior OS. Linux is so bad it is not even second rate.
Anonymous E replied with this 14 years ago, 5 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,935
@previous (I)
Except OX X is UNIX in the free form of Linux (based)
Anonymous G replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,937
@349,931 (I) @previous (E)
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linuxâ€, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux†distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Anonymous H replied with this 14 years ago, 25 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,942
@349,935 (E)
Yeah, OS X is pretty much Apple's GUI running on top of a BSD distro.
Anonymous I replied with this 14 years ago, 1 hour later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,947