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Re: Airyx OS

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Post by eafer »

zephyr9 wrote: post #58
eafer wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> compatible with macOS filesystems (HFS+ and APFS) How far along is this? I think she's underestimating how hard it is to implement a modern filesystem that won't eat users' data. I've been working on a Linux APFS driver[0] for several years, and it's not fully functional yet. It's a pity that she is working with FreeBSD, or it could have been of use to her. [0] https://github.com/eafer/linux-apfs-rw

> It's a pity you are working with Linux, or it could have been of use to her. FTFY

Oh, I wasn't trying to diss FreeBSD. It would probably have been better to write my driver for fuse to make it portable, but it's too far along at this point.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by animal_spirits »

shapefrog wrote: post #59

This reminds me of vegan bacon. If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat? If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?

macOS comes with the cost of an expensive computer, this is a free OS that mimics a well designed one.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by 3np »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #29
3np wrote: post #4

More information and motivation in the git repo[0], the link to which I didn't spot easily in the site header. The main design goals are: * source compatibility with macOS applications (i.e. you could compile a Mac application on Airyx and run it) * similar GUI metaphors and familiar UX (file manager, application launcher, top menu bar that reflects the open application, etc) * compatible with macOS filesystems (HFS+…

> source compatibility with macOS applications (i.e. you could compile a Mac application on Airyx and run it) Hard to see how this can be done legally. The libraries (sorry, Frameworks) that make up the user-space runtime for macOS are all proprietary. There's no replacement for the most important parts of it.

This is addressed in the README I linked to. Reimplementation of APIs is not legally sketchy. See Oracle vs Google.

https://www.eff.org/cases/oracle-v-google

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by gouggoug »

shapefrog wrote: post #59

This reminds me of vegan bacon. If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat? If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?

You can have the desire to not eat meat, yet, love the taste, texture and sensation of it. These things aren't incompatible.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by theonemind »

shapefrog wrote: post #59

This reminds me of vegan bacon. If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat? If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?

The obvious answer, of course, is that you do want to eat meat and run macOS for some reasons, but don't want to for other reasons, so I'm not sure what you really mean. Should we forget the good parts of things with bad aspects and not chase facsimiles, or embrace the bad aspects of things with good parts..? Neither one really makes sense to me; fake meat and fake macOS make sense to me, though I eat meat and use macOS. Or perhaps just that we should find substitutes that don't attempt mimicry.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by fny »

shapefrog wrote: post #59

This reminds me of vegan bacon. If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat? If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?

Simple. Meat is delicious, but for some it comes with ethical issues. If you they replicate the taste (or sufficiently delude yourself), they can enjoy "meat" once again and sleep at night.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by mike_hock »

shapefrog wrote: post #59

This reminds me of vegan bacon. If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat? If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?

Or like Lesbians using a strap-on ...

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by klemcijada »

shapefrog wrote: post #59

This reminds me of vegan bacon. If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat? If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?

You want the taste you are used to but don't want to increase demand for animal abuse.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by factorialboy »

shapefrog wrote: post #59

This reminds me of vegan bacon. If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat? If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?

Here is a reason: Mac OS telemetry is just as bad as Windows. Few months ago app launches on Mac OS slowed down because the service that received the "app launch event" degraded. /Facepalm

It's awful how very few in the tech community challenge Apple for their false privacy claims.

/Happy and productive onna Linux desktop

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by atmosx »

3np wrote: post #4

More information and motivation in the git repo[0], the link to which I didn't spot easily in the site header. The main design goals are: * source compatibility with macOS applications (i.e. you could compile a Mac application on Airyx and run it) * similar GUI metaphors and familiar UX (file manager, application launcher, top menu bar that reflects the open application, etc) * compatible with macOS filesystems (HFS+…

The problem is lack of support for docker.
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