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by nathos 3735 days ago
To be more accurate, your Mac isn't Linux, it's BSD. Luckily that *NIX underpinning is often enough to make it a solid development platform even when deploying to Linux.
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umanwizard 3735 days ago
It's not really BSD either; it's a mix of a bunch of stuff. The kernel XNU is a hybrid between Mach and BSD. I think there are also a few GNU utilities in the base system but I could be wrong about that (?)
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gpvos 3735 days ago 

    $ uname
    Darwin
    $ /usr/bin/cmp --version
    cmp (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1
    [...]
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umanwizard 3735 days ago
Right! I though there was still some GNU stuff floating around ;). Thanks for the example.
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