The Challenge of Marrying MacOS and Unix
MIT has an article on the difficulties and challanges of integrating the Unix and MacOS environments. The topic is of particular interest to gamers because the next version of MacOS is going to be based upon Linux, the open source port of Unix for the PC.
Unix and Mac OS have evolved independently of each other, and there are fundamental assumptions made in one system which cause numerous failures in the other. The capabilities of the available filesystems, the networking protocols, and the user/system model are profoundly varied, often in ways which cannot be rectified without changing the architecture of system components. Additionally, people use the systems in very different ways and expect different behavior from them.
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