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		gjsman-1000 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple: SSH and FileVault macOS is a Unix by pedigree; Linux is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_systems#/media/Fi... I have to dig out this chart when people complain about macOS's "non-standard utilities." Linux's GNU tools are the ones that aren't standard. If anything, Linux did an "embrace, extend, extinguish" against Unix in general.

jen20 3 months ago | [–]

It's also not just Unix by pedigree, but also by certification [1].

[1]: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1223p.pdf

dangus 3 months ago | [–]

I’d add that it is rather prescriptive to declare that macOS is not a “proper multi-user system.”

It is quite capable of handling multiple users. Maybe just not in the way that certain people want it to.

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