Last week, I loaned Danny "NTK" O'Brien my old iBook graphite with OS X.1.5 to play around on. Danny's a far more hackier hacker than I am, and I knew he'd do useful and interesting things with my new favorite OS. Danny's started to blog his OS X notes, beginning with some pithy observations on the difference between MacUnix culture and GNU/Linux culture:
Despite what Slashdot might imply, I don't think it's possible to maintain rumours for very long in Free Software land. "A little birdy tells me that Alan Cox might be working on a new I2O implementation!". Either the object of the rumour comes along and grumpily puts everyone straight, or (if it's a more subjective piece of gossip), two gangs of fanatics come along and flamewar each other until no one cares what the truth is anymore. In MacOS land, the only person who appears to know what's really going on except Steve Jobs. And he's never on IRC. It's exciting!
