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homebrew is your friend. They are not going to upgrade anything that has gone to GPL3.
Any reason why they can't fork it and port all the new stuff? I'd imagine for legal reasons they will have to hire devs who haven't looked at the GNU source code.
Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. All the other features are Meh. I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work. I can't be sure that all my questions to Siri are not awkward to speak out. Would have been great to have a textual interface though. You know that Keyboard thingy that is always with a Mac?!
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The GPLv3 has clauses in it that opens up a new load of legal questions for Apple that they'd rather avoid. I just wish that Apple would move to using less encumbered shell that is actively being developed, like pdksh or zsh.
If Microsoft is willing to ship GNU tools as a officially sanctioned extension to Windows , then Apple definitely has no valid excuse to avoid GPL v3.
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I would settle for fixing the bug where I have to restart Finder to rebuild the connection every time my NAS drive spins down. Also the combination of screensharing to a headless MacMini and then AirPlaying to an Apple TV produces some fairly loathsome results.
It's a pain but autofs can help: http://blog.grapii.com/2015/06/keep-network-drives-mounted-o...
It seems like more and more of the work on MacOS is dedicated to propping up iOS instead of simply making a great desktop OS. As someone who does not use or want Apple's mobile devices, it's been hard to get excited about these last few releases.
> As someone who does not use or want Apple's mobile devices My guess is that most of Mac users do want/use Apple mobile devices, and that in fact the majority of their computing time is now on those devices so it makes sense that the team would focus heavily on the interface and overlap between iOS / MacOS.
Which doesn't really change the fact that even Windows 10 has been starting to pass them by with significant new features.
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> Will they update the unix layer? A lot of the CLI tools there are positively prehistoric. They won't, they don't want to touch any GPLv3 code.
What do BSD distros use?
titan:~/src/bsd/freebsd-ports geofft$ find . -name Makefile -exec grep LICENSE.*=.*GPLv3 {} + | wc -l
1456This will finally alleviate the awkward pronunciation ambiguity. To this day, I'm not sure whether to say "OS ex" or "OS ten".
If you use the say command in the Terminal you get the definitive answer.
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It's not like iOS where everything is locked down. You are root and can do anything you want on your machine. It should be pretty trivial to prevent the cloud storage stuff from running.
> You are root and can do anything you want on your machine. That was never my experience on an Apple device. Now my Linux boxes yes, but Apple and Windows no way. Especially with the Mac App Store and the user Interface being so locked down by Apple. Many things are hidden by Apple.
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Oh that's a Finder bug? I was blaming Synology but I'm basing that on nothing.
Huh. I suppose it could be Synology? Either way it's hella annoying.