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The MacBook Pro introduction in October caused unusually negative reactions among professional users due to the realization that Apple no longer caters equally to casual and professional customers as it had in the past [YouTube video]. Instead, the company appears to be following an iOS-focused, margin-driven strategy that essentially relegates professionals to a fringe group.
This has well-known developers such as Salvatore Sanfilippo (of the Redis project) consider a move back to Linux. Perhaps that's a good moment to look at the current state of Mac hardware support in the kernel. While Macs are x86 systems, they possess various custom chips and undocumented quirks that the community needs to painstakingly reverse-engineer.
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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:48PM
Many years ago, when I started to learn shell scripting and suddenly became very productive, I decided to try out GNUStep (seeing as how I wrote my own automated build in bash), what with it being a FOSS reimplementation of the NeXTStep/OpenSTEP/Cocoa API. I ran out of time :-( Although the style of the widgets was a la NeXTStep c1990, so what, that's just window dressing and I like it anyway (I run Window Maker on Slackware so there).
What was cool is that someone had started an emacs port to it and you could compile it from source on OSX and Linux and it ran, after a fashion. But I'm a vim user...
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].