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generalk on July 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ubuntu is coming back to Dell Laptops

Care to expand on that? Recall that Mac OS X is a certified UNIX, so I'm not sure what "unix-y" features it's missing.

super_mario on July 19, 2012 | [–]

GPL v3 great purge that Apple is doing in stages means that all UNIX-y software on Mac OS X, including shells, gcc etc are now ancient and will eventually be phased out altogether.

Ralith on July 19, 2012 | [–]

The ability to replace the desktop environment without basically building a new OS from scratch, for one.

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