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@ -16,8 +16,10 @@ professional hardware and servers.
The issues you post help maintain or expand that support, and are
always appreciated since user data and feedback is what keeps inxi
working and supporting the latest or not so latest hardware and
operating systems. See the BSD section below for qualifications re
BSDs and OSX.
operating systems.
See the BSD section below for qualifications re BSDs, and OSX in
particular.
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MASTER BRANCH:
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BSD SUPPORT
Real BSDs:
BSD support is not as complete as GNU/Linux support due to the fact
some of the data simply is not available, or is structured in a way
that makes it unique to each BSD. This fragmentation makes supporting
@ -242,9 +245,12 @@ flags to identify that it is a BSD system vs a GNU/Linux system, and
preloads some data structures for BSD use, so make sure you understand
what inxi is doing before you get into it.
inxi will also start on Darwin, OSX's mutated version of a BSD, but
my conclusion about Darwin is that it is Unix in name only, and I will
not spend any of my finite time adding any further support for OSX.
OSX:
If you want me to donate my time supporting OSX, you have to pay me,
because Apple is all about money, not freedom (that's what the 'free'
in 'free software' is referring to). OSX is also the least Unix-like
operating system I've ever seen that pretends to be a Unix, its tools
are mutated, it's data randomly and non-standardly organized.
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INXI FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY