• Re: Met a Gac (was: Re: I'm now running Fedora Cinnamon)

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 21 03:56:51 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to run
    Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the writing on
    the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 21 23:30:48 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the writing on
    the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing that Linux is a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 22 01:35:27 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:38:17 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump"" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" <[email protected]d>
    wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to run >>> Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the writing on
    the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing that Linux is
    a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a *re-implementing* of
    it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some modifications.
    You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own arrogant talking
    out of ass.

    Once again, you are wrong.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 22 01:36:57 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:49:04 PM EDT, "Mr Ön!on" <=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mr_=D6n!on?=> wrote:

    Tyrone <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51?PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" <[email protected]d> >> wrote:

    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!


    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to run >>> Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the writing on
    the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.


    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing that Linux >> is a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    To be accurate: macOS (Darwin) is based on BSD, among other things.

    BSD is Unix.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)>

    "Starting with Leopard, macOS has been certified as compatible with
    the Single UNIX Specification version 3 (SUSv3)."

    Yes. It is certified as Unix. Thanks for making my point.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Fri Aug 22 01:54:52 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:35:27 +0000, Tyrone <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:38:17 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump""
    <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to
    run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the
    writing on the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing that
    Linux is a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a *re-implementing* of
    it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some modifications.
    You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own arrogant talking
    out of ass.

    Once again, you are wrong.

    Linux was designed to be POSIX-compliant, then added some SUS.

    So MacOS is UNIX(tm) -- that's nice. So why aren't there any MacOS
    servers being sold anymore? They used to sell them...but Rackmacs
    haven't been around since 2011.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

    MacOS is somewhat limited. For example, try this on MacOS:

    $ cat ngroups.c
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <limits.h>

    int main (void)
    {

    printf("%d\n",NGROUPS_MAX);

    return 0;
    }

    On a Mac, this gives:
    $ ./ngroups
    16

    On Linux:
    $ ./ngroups
    65536

    So you might think, "so what?". Have you looked at
    what MacOS does to you if you are an admin?

    $ id
    uid=502(x) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts), 79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin), 701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator), 204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp), 398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh), 400(com.apple.access_remote_ae)

    Count up the supplemental groups, and you'll see why
    your ersatz "UNIX" is weak.

    And that's just one example.

    At least it uses CUPS, though -- but guess where Apple
    got that, hmmmm?

    --
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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 21 20:55:53 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-08-21 18:54, vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:35:27 +0000, Tyrone <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:38:17 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump""
    <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to >>>>> run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the
    writing on the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing that
    Linux is a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a *re-implementing* of
    it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some modifications.
    You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own arrogant talking
    out of ass.

    Once again, you are wrong.

    Linux was designed to be POSIX-compliant, then added some SUS.

    So MacOS is UNIX(tm) -- that's nice. So why aren't there any MacOS
    servers being sold anymore? They used to sell them...but Rackmacs
    haven't been around since 2011.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

    MacOS is somewhat limited. For example, try this on MacOS:

    $ cat ngroups.c
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <limits.h>

    int main (void)
    {

    printf("%d\n",NGROUPS_MAX);

    return 0;
    }

    On a Mac, this gives:
    $ ./ngroups
    16

    On Linux:
    $ ./ngroups
    65536

    So you might think, "so what?". Have you looked at
    what MacOS does to you if you are an admin?

    $ id
    uid=502(x) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts), 79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin), 701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator), 204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp), 398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh), 400(com.apple.access_remote_ae)

    Count up the supplemental groups, and you'll see why
    your ersatz "UNIX" is weak.

    I'm sorry, but you think an important metric about OS quality and/or
    utility is how many security groups it happens to ship with pre-configured?

    Really? Seriously?


    And that's just one example.

    At least it uses CUPS, though -- but guess where Apple
    got that, hmmmm?
    Indeed... ...where DID Apple get CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System?

    Original author(s) Michael Sweet (Easy Software Products)

    Developer(s) Apple Inc.

    'In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac
    OS X 10.2.[8] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael
    Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code. On December 20, 2019, Michael
    Sweet announced on his blog that he had left Apple.'

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS>

    So for 12 years of its existence, Apple was in charge of the continuing development of CUPS.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Alan on Fri Aug 22 04:05:00 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:55:53 -0700, Alan <[email protected]> wrote in <1088po9$1bgi3$[email protected]>:

    On 2025-08-21 18:54, vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:35:27 +0000, Tyrone <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:38:17 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump""
    <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability
    to run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the >>>>>> writing on the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing
    that Linux is a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a *re-implementing*
    of it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some
    modifications. You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own
    arrogant talking out of ass.

    Once again, you are wrong.

    Linux was designed to be POSIX-compliant, then added some SUS.

    So MacOS is UNIX(tm) -- that's nice. So why aren't there any MacOS
    servers being sold anymore? They used to sell them...but Rackmacs
    haven't been around since 2011.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

    MacOS is somewhat limited. For example, try this on MacOS:

    $ cat ngroups.c #include <stdio.h>
    #include <limits.h>

    int main (void)
    {

    printf("%d\n",NGROUPS_MAX);

    return 0;
    }

    On a Mac, this gives:
    $ ./ngroups 16

    On Linux:
    $ ./ngroups 65536

    So you might think, "so what?". Have you looked at what MacOS does to
    you if you are an admin?

    $ id uid=502(x) gid=20(staff)
    groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),
    79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),
    701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),
    204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp),
    398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh),
    400(com.apple.access_remote_ae)

    Count up the supplemental groups, and you'll see why your ersatz "UNIX"
    is weak.

    I'm sorry, but you think an important metric about OS quality and/or
    utility is how many security groups it happens to ship with
    pre-configured?

    Really? Seriously?

    Your feigned incredulity doesn't fool anyone.

    Did you count the supplemental groups? What good are
    supplemental groups if you can't add any for your own
    use cases?



    And that's just one example.

    At least it uses CUPS, though -- but guess where Apple got that, hmmmm?
    Indeed... ...where DID Apple get CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System?

    Original author(s) Michael Sweet (Easy Software Products)

    Developer(s) Apple Inc.

    'In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac
    OS X 10.2.[8] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code. On December 20, 2019, Michael
    Sweet announced on his blog that he had left Apple.'

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS>

    So for 12 years of its existence, Apple was in charge of the continuing development of CUPS.

    So?

    I'm grateful that Apple has maintained it (as much as they have
    done so), but it originated in a different world -- the world
    of open source.

    Where do you think it was deployed before MacOS, hmmmm?

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.2 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle."

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 21 21:26:28 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2025-08-21 21:05, vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:55:53 -0700, Alan <[email protected]> wrote in <1088po9$1bgi3$[email protected]>:

    On 2025-08-21 18:54, vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:35:27 +0000, Tyrone <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:38:17 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump""
    <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability >>>>>>> to run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the >>>>>>> writing on the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing
    that Linux is a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a *re-implementing* >>>>> of it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some
    modifications. You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own
    arrogant talking out of ass.

    Once again, you are wrong.

    Linux was designed to be POSIX-compliant, then added some SUS.

    So MacOS is UNIX(tm) -- that's nice. So why aren't there any MacOS
    servers being sold anymore? They used to sell them...but Rackmacs
    haven't been around since 2011.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

    MacOS is somewhat limited. For example, try this on MacOS:

    $ cat ngroups.c #include <stdio.h>
    #include <limits.h>

    int main (void)
    {

    printf("%d\n",NGROUPS_MAX);

    return 0;
    }

    On a Mac, this gives:
    $ ./ngroups 16

    On Linux:
    $ ./ngroups 65536

    So you might think, "so what?". Have you looked at what MacOS does to
    you if you are an admin?

    $ id uid=502(x) gid=20(staff)
    groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),
    79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),
    701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),
    204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp),
    398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh),
    400(com.apple.access_remote_ae)

    Count up the supplemental groups, and you'll see why your ersatz "UNIX"
    is weak.

    I'm sorry, but you think an important metric about OS quality and/or
    utility is how many security groups it happens to ship with
    pre-configured?

    Really? Seriously?

    Your feigned incredulity doesn't fool anyone.

    Did you count the supplemental groups? What good are
    supplemental groups if you can't add any for your own
    use cases?

    Why do you imagine that you can't add groups on macOS?




    And that's just one example.

    At least it uses CUPS, though -- but guess where Apple got that, hmmmm?
    Indeed... ...where DID Apple get CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System?

    Original author(s) Michael Sweet (Easy Software Products)

    Developer(s) Apple Inc.

    'In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac
    OS X 10.2.[8] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael
    Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code. On December 20, 2019, Michael
    Sweet announced on his blog that he had left Apple.'

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS>

    So for 12 years of its existence, Apple was in charge of the continuing
    development of CUPS.

    So?

    I'm grateful that Apple has maintained it (as much as they have
    done so), but it originated in a different world -- the world
    of open source.

    Where do you think it was deployed before MacOS, hmmmm?
    I know where it was deployed...

    ...but you utterly ignored what Apple did for it...

    ...and that it wasn't purely open source.

    ESP Print was a part of CUPS when it was being developed by Michael
    Sweet, and it was NOT open source.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Alan on Fri Aug 22 11:01:21 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:26:28 -0700, Alan <[email protected]> wrote in <1088rhl$1bu4d$[email protected]>:

    On 2025-08-21 21:05, vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:55:53 -0700, Alan <[email protected]> wrote in
    <1088po9$1bgi3$[email protected]>:

    On 2025-08-21 18:54, vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:35:27 +0000, Tyrone <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:38:17 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump""
    <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability >>>>>>>> to run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read >>>>>>>> the writing on the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing >>>>>>> that Linux is a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a
    *re-implementing*
    of it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some
    modifications. You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own >>>>>> arrogant talking out of ass.

    Once again, you are wrong.

    Linux was designed to be POSIX-compliant, then added some SUS.

    So MacOS is UNIX(tm) -- that's nice. So why aren't there any MacOS
    servers being sold anymore? They used to sell them...but Rackmacs
    haven't been around since 2011.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

    MacOS is somewhat limited. For example, try this on MacOS:

    $ cat ngroups.c #include <stdio.h>
    #include <limits.h>

    int main (void)
    {

    printf("%d\n",NGROUPS_MAX);

    return 0;
    }

    On a Mac, this gives:
    $ ./ngroups 16

    On Linux:
    $ ./ngroups 65536

    So you might think, "so what?". Have you looked at what MacOS does
    to you if you are an admin?

    $ id uid=502(x) gid=20(staff)
    groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),
    79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),
    701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),
    204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp),
    398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh),
    400(com.apple.access_remote_ae)

    Count up the supplemental groups, and you'll see why your ersatz
    "UNIX"
    is weak.

    I'm sorry, but you think an important metric about OS quality and/or
    utility is how many security groups it happens to ship with
    pre-configured?

    Really? Seriously?

    Your feigned incredulity doesn't fool anyone.

    Did you count the supplemental groups? What good are supplemental
    groups if you can't add any for your own use cases?

    Why do you imagine that you can't add groups on macOS?

    I didn't say that. Please understand what I'm saying:

    You can add all the groups you like, but you can't store them
    in a process' supplemental groups table if it gets full.

    It only holds 16 groups in the table. Adding the gid of the
    process, that's 17 groups total.

    (If you know of a way to increase the size of the table,
    please let me know. :) )






    And that's just one example.

    At least it uses CUPS, though -- but guess where Apple got that,
    hmmmm?
    Indeed... ...where DID Apple get CUPS, the Common Unix Printing
    System?

    Original author(s) Michael Sweet (Easy Software Products)

    Developer(s) Apple Inc.

    'In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac
    OS X 10.2.[8] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer
    Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code. On December 20,
    2019, Michael Sweet announced on his blog that he had left Apple.'

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS>

    So for 12 years of its existence, Apple was in charge of the
    continuing development of CUPS.

    So?

    I'm grateful that Apple has maintained it (as much as they have done
    so), but it originated in a different world -- the world of open
    source.

    Where do you think it was deployed before MacOS, hmmmm?
    I know where it was deployed...

    ...but you utterly ignored what Apple did for it...

    ...and that it wasn't purely open source.

    ESP Print was a part of CUPS when it was being developed by Michael
    Sweet, and it was NOT open source.

    I'll take your word for it, and I'll stand corrected.

    --
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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 22 13:06:34 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the writing on
    the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.


    From what I see on forums and youtube is Linux is for people who never
    worked a day in their life and get by on food stamps and welfare
    payouts. They can't afford to hookup external peripherals like the
    working class and the working class people knowZ nothing you hookup to
    that operating system ever works unless its 20 years old or older or is
    used by at least 4 billion people on earth all at the same time.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Fri Aug 22 13:24:19 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Joel W. Crump wrote:
    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"
    <[email protected]d>
    wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to run >>> Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the writing on
    the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix.  You know, the original thing that
    Linux is
    a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a *re-implementing* of
    it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some modifications.
    You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own arrogant talking
    out of ass.


    I already told him about the Linux degenerates who despise anyone with a
    dollar to their name or in their pocket or even worked a job at least
    once in their life. If they were all psychoanalyzed they're just venting
    their anger on the class of people who don't live in one bedroom
    apartments with bedbugs, cockroaches and mold.

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 22 13:28:47 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    % wrote:
    vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:35:27 +0000, Tyrone <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:38:17 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump""
    <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to >>>>>> run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the
    writing on the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix.  You know, the original thing that >>>>> Linux is a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a *re-implementing* of >>>> it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some modifications.
    You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own arrogant talking
    out of ass.

    Once again, you are wrong.

    Linux was designed to be POSIX-compliant, then added some SUS.

    So MacOS is UNIX(tm) -- that's nice.  So why aren't there any MacOS
    servers being sold anymore?  They used to sell them...but Rackmacs
    haven't been around since 2011.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

    MacOS is somewhat limited.  For example, try this on MacOS:

    $ cat ngroups.c
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <limits.h>

    int main (void)
    {

    printf("%d\n",NGROUPS_MAX);

    return 0;
    }

    On a Mac, this gives:
    $ ./ngroups
    16

    On Linux:
    $ ./ngroups
    65536

    So you might think, "so what?".  Have you looked at
    what MacOS does to you if you are an admin?

    $ id
    uid=502(x) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),
    79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),
    701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),
    204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp),
    398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh),
    400(com.apple.access_remote_ae)

    Count up the supplemental groups, and you'll see why
    your ersatz "UNIX" is weak.

    And that's just one example.

    At least it uses CUPS, though -- but guess where Apple
    got that, hmmmm?

    yea , get a mac and chase your kernels

    I still remember Colonel Burke on this newsgroup. It's how bad things
    have gotten in this world when they let all these castaways from mental
    wards and insane asylums all get together and preach total insanity to
    each other and expect everyone else to believe they're of sound mind on
    these Linux newsgroups.

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to vallor on Fri Aug 22 18:54:11 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 22 Aug 2025 11:01:21 GMT, vallor wrote:


    You can add all the groups you like, but you can't store them
    in a process' supplemental groups table if it gets full.

    It only holds 16 groups in the table. Adding the gid of the
    process, that's 17 groups total.

    (If you know of a way to increase the size of the table,
    please let me know. :) )


    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I find this whole user/group
    thing to be utterly amusing.

    What is the point of users/groups on a single-user, standalone
    workstation? Huh? What's the fucking point?

    Answer: There is no fucking point.

    That's why on my GNU/Linux machines there is only one user
    and there is only one group: and that is ROOT.

    Root, root, root, root, root, and root. What more could
    one ask for?

    For me, it has always been this way and it will always be
    this way.

    I have only ever had one problem: Postgresql won't permit
    to run as as root.

    But I said "Fuck you!" to Postgresql. Problem solved.

    The Unix philosophy goes way back to an era before the PC,
    but this philosophy no longer makes sense for a single-user,
    standalone workstation.

    Yet these current dumb-fucks don't know how to remove the
    multi-user yoke and can only rely upon "canned" distros.

    I piss on you all.

    Now cue the parrots, monkeys, and apes to spew the standard
    lines.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


    --
    Gentoo: the royal road to GNU/Linux perfection.

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to vallor on Sat Aug 23 01:16:59 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:26:28 -0700, Alan <[email protected]> wrote in <1088rhl$1bu4d$[email protected]>:

    On 2025-08-21 21:05, vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:55:53 -0700, Alan <[email protected]> wrote in
    <1088po9$1bgi3$[email protected]>:

    On 2025-08-21 18:54, vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:35:27 +0000, Tyrone <[email protected]> wrote in >>>>> <[email protected]>:

    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:38:17 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump""
    <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability >>>>>>>>> to run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read >>>>>>>>> the writing on the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing >>>>>>>> that Linux is a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a
    *re-implementing*
    of it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some
    modifications. You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own >>>>>>> arrogant talking out of ass.

    Once again, you are wrong.

    Linux was designed to be POSIX-compliant, then added some SUS.

    So MacOS is UNIX(tm) -- that's nice. So why aren't there any MacOS
    servers being sold anymore? They used to sell them...but Rackmacs
    haven't been around since 2011.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

    MacOS is somewhat limited. For example, try this on MacOS:

    $ cat ngroups.c #include <stdio.h>
    #include <limits.h>

    int main (void)
    {

    printf("%d\n",NGROUPS_MAX);

    return 0;
    }

    On a Mac, this gives:
    $ ./ngroups 16

    On Linux:
    $ ./ngroups 65536

    So you might think, "so what?". Have you looked at what MacOS does
    to you if you are an admin?

    $ id uid=502(x) gid=20(staff)
    groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),
    79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),
    701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),
    204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp),
    398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh),
    400(com.apple.access_remote_ae)

    Count up the supplemental groups, and you'll see why your ersatz
    "UNIX"
    is weak.

    I'm sorry, but you think an important metric about OS quality and/or
    utility is how many security groups it happens to ship with
    pre-configured?

    Really? Seriously?

    Your feigned incredulity doesn't fool anyone.

    Did you count the supplemental groups? What good are supplemental
    groups if you can't add any for your own use cases?

    Why do you imagine that you can't add groups on macOS?

    I didn't say that. Please understand what I'm saying:

    You can add all the groups you like, but you can't store them
    in a process' supplemental groups table if it gets full.

    It only holds 16 groups in the table. Adding the gid of the
    process, that's 17 groups total.

    (If you know of a way to increase the size of the table,
    please let me know. :) )






    And that's just one example.

    At least it uses CUPS, though -- but guess where Apple got that,
    hmmmm?
    Indeed... ...where DID Apple get CUPS, the Common Unix Printing
    System?

    Original author(s) Michael Sweet (Easy Software Products)

    Developer(s) Apple Inc.

    'In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac >>>> OS X 10.2.[8] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer
    Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code. On December 20,
    2019, Michael Sweet announced on his blog that he had left Apple.'

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS>

    So for 12 years of its existence, Apple was in charge of the
    continuing development of CUPS.

    So?

    I'm grateful that Apple has maintained it (as much as they have done
    so), but it originated in a different world -- the world of open
    source.

    Where do you think it was deployed before MacOS, hmmmm?
    I know where it was deployed...

    ...but you utterly ignored what Apple did for it...

    ...and that it wasn't purely open source.

    ESP Print was a part of CUPS when it was being developed by Michael
    Sweet, and it was NOT open source.

    I'll take your word for it, and I'll stand corrected.

    I'll take your head for that, and to substitute,

    a piece of corn.

    --
    n

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Sun Aug 24 18:10:58 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 21, 2025 at 8:38:17 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump"" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 8/21/25 7:30 PM, Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" <[email protected]d>
    wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 03:24:21 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    struggling

    Get a Mac!

    Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability to run >>>> Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the writing on >>>> the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

    Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing that Linux is
    a copy of.

    Linux is not "taking over" the Mac.


    Idiot, GNU/Linux is not the "copy of" Unix, it's a *re-implementing* of
    it - *macOS*, OTOH, *IS* a "copy of" Unix, with some modifications.
    You're welcome for the lesson, in detecting your own arrogant talking
    out of ass.

    Once again, you are wrong.

    I AM Toshiba of Mac. Your arrogant shit talking is wrong. Once again,
    advise you to uninstall Linux and send me your boot disc.

    --
    n

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