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NegativeNull@lemm.ee @lemm.ee

2y ago

The Federation should have used Linux, the superior OS

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LCARS already has a UNIX kernel. Didn't you know that?
- There is an LCARS desktop environment for Linux https://lcarsde.github.io/
- I did not!
  
  I didn't either, but it sounded plausible.
Canonically in Voyager their computers run macOS. BSD is pretty great.
There a scene with a macOS cursor visible.
- Mach/BSD 🤓
  The actual kernel of XNU (ie. what's under the hood in macOS, originally by NeXT) is Mach which is a microkernel, and a chunk of FreeBSD is used to provide userland(ish) stuff like POSIX APIs, a UNIX process model on top of Mach, protocol stacks 'n shit.
- but this means they are PowerPC Macs...
Just eject the warp core ... and reinsert it again.
Like a battery when you want to restart your device.
https://lcarsde.github.io/

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