[TUHS] Macs and future unix derivatives

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Feb 26 08:45:49 AEST 2021


On Mon, 8 Feb 2021, Thomas Paulsen wrote:

> I'm a UNIX man since the days of Sys4R4. Since then I run Linux and 
> nothing else than Linux, no dual, triple, quadruple boot into anything 
> else. To be honest I don't like Apple because it's an elitist system: 
> People pay at least one thousand bucks just for the feel like being part 
> of a superior elite. Under Sys4R4 me and 50 others shared one big 
> resource: no place for any elitist movement.

I've been a Unix bod since Edition 5, and I run a few systems (Mac, 
FreeBSD, Penguin); I don't consider myself to be an elitist (unless you 
consider "Anything But Windoze" to be elitist).

I also paid only about $300 for my 2nd-hand MacBook Pro, and it works
fine.

-- Dave


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