"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it." [LWN.net]

"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Sep 1, 2012 13:03 UTC (Sat) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: "Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it." by Cyberax
Parent article: Look and feel lawsuits, the second time around

"Macs run almost all of the POSIX-y software just fine."

So that means it's about as useful as cygwin or even a linux virtual machine on windows.

You're ignoring my actual point that the two environments on a Mac barely interact in any useful way.

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"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Sep 1, 2012 15:14 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Or maybe GNOME in Linux? After all, it's not really connected with POSIX-y stuff.

"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Sep 7, 2012 12:12 UTC (Fri) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]

False - it absolutely is.

(I'm not a gnome user, so I'll talk about kde) Configuration can be managed through text files, many tools can be controlled very effectively through the commandline and generally where possible things are done the "unix way".

"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Sep 7, 2012 22:03 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

[…] and generally where possible things are done the "unix way".

Except the developers have apparently never heard about man pages.

Even the official documentation often leaves a lot to be desired. Much of it confines itself to recapitulating the menu items of a program as in »Open file: This lets you open a file. Save file: This lets you save a file. Save file as …: …«. This is not what I would consider documentation.

I have felt for a long time that the single most productive thing the KDE project could do to improve their offering is to stop writing code for 3 months and to use that time to actually document the thing properly ;^)