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 Tuesday, January 15, 2002
Are we returning to the 19th century via email? 1:18:46 PM 
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Jordan Hubbard says:
For those who've been living under a rock this last year, OS X has
finally managed to achieve what's been something of a holy grail for
the Unix community - take a powerful Unix core (BSD) and mate it with
a usable desktop, GUI development tools and some real applications,
all without sacrificing access to the underlying features of Unix.
Apple has even bundled tools like PERL and EMACS as part of the base
system, proving that they're more than willing to appeal to the
techies out there as well as the general consumer who may never get
past the desktop. From the Open Source perspective, Apple is also
making a strong play with Darwin, the core OS component of OS X. Full
sources are available to the general public and Apple is making full
use of CVS and other tools which will help keep the development
process coherent, just as FreeBSD has done.
how cool is that? more or less lots of the reasons I'm excited about OSX -- it makes Wintel look like really backward, closed, highly-proprietary, expensive and dead-end solutions, which they are. The sad thing is that the best ideas, or the ideas with the most potential, do not always prevail. Just so long as these ideas -- the ones Hubbard mentions that Apple and opensource people are working on -- don't die, at least there will be a refuge for those of us who read 1984. 1:04:57 PM
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Who really believes Bush just choked on a pretzel? (And how many of us try to spell "choked" with two c's?) I don't (believe it, that is), but I hope we someday learn a better real explanation than these. My money is on some sort of alcoholic binge or drug episode -- if the man does not use copious amounts of drugs to achieve his blithe disregard for reality, perhaps he *should* use copious and obscene amounts of drugs to either kill himself or try to turn himself into a sentient being... 12:35:14 PM
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