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by nix23 1609 days ago
>And those core utils are generally seen as a hindrance by developers using it.

I don't like Mac nor do i like gnu-coreutil...but that's my personal taste, and not my problem.

>Plus how long did MacOS diverge from FreeBSD? 20+ years ago? Does it even resemble current FreeBSD enough that this observation makes sense, except from a software history perspective?

I said what kernel it uses (FreeBSD and Mach) and i don't know if Apple re-bases their code on current FreeBSD-Code...you can look that for for yourself. Don't start twisting facts because you didn't knew better, at least now you know.
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oblio 1609 days ago
> I don't like Mac nor do i like gnu-coreutil...but that's my personal taste, and not my problem.

Well, it's not your problem, but when millions of developers like GNU coreutils over BSD coreutils, then it kind of becomes everyone's problem :-)

There's a reason GNU became popular when there were other tools available before it appeared.

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nix23 1609 days ago
>but when millions of developers like GNU coreutils over BSD coreutils

I don't care if they cannot install Gnu/Linux on their machine, but being forced to use a proprietary system like Mac. Not my problem. Don't want bsd-core-utils? Don't buy apple, it's so easy.

>There's a reason GNU became popular when there were other tools available before it appeared.

That's not the reason and you know it, stop with that half-knowledge you think you have.

Something to read for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....

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oblio 1609 days ago
> Don't buy apple, it's so easy.

And yet they do, by the millions :-) Anyway, I don't really have a bone to pick on this topic.

However:

> That's not the reason and you know it, stop with that half-knowledge you think you have.

Yes, it is. They were full of features and that's why they became popular.

Please enlighten us with your rest-of-half-knowledge, otherwise.

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