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Show me a unix system as nice as the Surface Book and I'll be interested.



Is that one of those failed Microsoft tablet thingies? Why would anyone care about a GUI in the 21st century, when everything runs either on stdout/stderr or on the web?

Anyway, the answer to your question is iPad Pro by Apple Computer. It runs an operating system called "iOS" which is a heavily customized FreeBSD on top of a custom CMU Mach kernel. And it's UNIX03 compliant. UNIX! It's everywhere!


> Anyway, the answer to your question is iPad Pro by Apple Computer. It runs an operating system called "iOS" which is a heavily customized FreeBSD on top of a custom CMU Mach kernel. And it's UNIX03 compliant. UNIX! It's everywhere, it didn't go away, and it won't die!

I'm aware of it, it's not good enough. Its UI is terrible when you need to work with multiple applications, it's a pain to customize anything and even more of a pain to run your own programs.


How do you run XCode, sign apps and upload them to the store on iPad Pro?

How does you .profile on iOS look like?


I don't, what for? All I'd need is SSH to connect to my illumos based systems, and a web browser to use my applications. Compiling things on a lone desktop like back in the '90's? No, that's what I did when I was a kid and didn't know any better. I have infrastructure for that now. Cross compilers, too.




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