Notable Developer Starts Patreon to Fund Apple Silicon Linux Port

[I7guy]

Waste of time. Apple will more than likely lock down the ability to boot from other operating systems.

I was thinking that as well. It's not like one can stick a dvd in the old dvd reader and select the boot device...can one?

 

[MevetS]

And make certain it is from approved developer. Then disable SIP if you wish to do anything to the system files. Or enable booting from an external drive, the list goes on....

If it was locked down then you couldn’t do these things. The fact that you can proves that it isn’t.

 

[MacUser2525]

If it was locked down then you couldn’t do these things. The fact that you can proves that it isn’t.

The fact you have to unlock something to do it proves it is locked down.

 

[MevetS]

The fact you have to unlock something to do it proves it is locked down.

No, it proves that there are measures in place to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot while still allowing advanced users to gain the control they want or need.

iOS is locked down. macOS is not.

 

[MacUser2525]

No, it proves that there are measures in place to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot while still allowing advanced users to gain the control they want or need.

iOS is locked down. macOS is not.

Black is white.

 

[lederermc]

Isn't MacOS based on Unix which came originally from Bell Labs?

I used linux for years but finally left it because it seems almost impossible to get everything one wants on a distro.

That market is so fragmented its a quagmire.

MacOS is Unix origined and Linux is diffferent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

 

[AdAstra]

Isn't MacOS based on Unix which came originally from Bell Labs?

I used linux for years but finally left it because it seems almost impossible to get everything one wants on a distro.

That market is so fragmented its a quagmire.

Yes and No. MacOS is based on Job's visionary but failed NexT Computers OS called NeXTSTEP which was was ported from BSD Unix.

Unix originally was developed at Bell Labs by Thompson and Ritchie in 1969....but Unix evolved to many different variants by the late 1980s when the NeXTSTEP multitasking OS was developed for NeXT machines. What those 3 guys did in 1969 (kernel and shell) was revolutionary but not what we would consider a modern OS.

Fun fact: In the summer of 1969, Thompson's wife, Bonnie, spent a month visiting his parents to show off their newborn son. Thompson took advantage of his temporary bachelor existence to write a good chunk of what would become the Unix operating system for the discarded PDP‑7. The name Unix stems from a joke one of Thompson's colleagues made: Because the new operating system supported only one user (Thompson), he saw it as an emasculated version of Multics and dubbed it “Un-multiplexed Information and Computing Service," or Unics. The name later morphed into Unix. (https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix)

Of course, Ritchie also created the C programming language...as well as its predecessor, B. These men shaped the modern world as much as anyone...

Exactly what can't you find in one distro? Linux is the dominant OS in my field (AI). Aside from Time Machine which remains THE killer backup app, I can't think of another killer app that Ubuntu/Debian or Fedora is missing. I don't game but then again, MacOS isn't exactly a gamer's platform.