> Feels like the article is just a cheap dunk on macOS.

That blog, Howard Oakley at eclecticlight.co, is consistently the most informative on the internet about macOS behaviors and internals, that Apple does not explain. He is also the author of several useful tools [1] to help observe and understand some of its underlying details. It's maybe the closest we have to a SysInternals for macOS.

[1] https://eclecticlight.co/free-software-menu/

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sbuk 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is. Add we all have off days. Perhaps Howard has had one here. I mean, he is defining what type of OS it is by how it's configuted. Which is just wierd.

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Moto7451 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I got a chuckle out of that for my own reasons as a long time Mac user as “Mac OS X is Unix” was the brand back in the 10.0-10.3 days, to the point I believe they got a Unix certification by someone, and then again with macOS 15 they got an Open Group UNIX certification.

https://www.osnews.com/story/140868/macos-15-0-now-unix-03-c...

I can’t say this affects me in any way I’m aware of, but the perception presented here is interesting.

	▲	sgjohnson 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Funnily enough, they had no certification and weren’t compliant in 10.0-10.3 days, so what they were doing was trademark infringement, hence the lawsuit from the Open Group. 10.4 was the first compliant version. And oh boy they really milked it for several years afterwards. https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...

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sgjohnson 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That just highlights my point about this article being a cheap dunk?

Because I was very disappointed with it ending at “SSV doesn’t let you”. SSV can be disabled, and the author should have known (almost certainly knows) that.

	▲	AceJohnny2 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Disabling SSV may have been beyond the scope of the experiment the author was attempting. I suppose he could've been more explicit about that. From one of his comments on his post: > I wish whoever takes that project on, every success, even more so at working out how those processes can be disabled completely while keeping the SSV intact.