Beginners • Re: Beware the internet

A cynic might suggest that is by design.

Likely the MacOS development team is too small to implement or maintain many filesystems.

Probably the same is true for Windows.

Seriously?? Two of the world's largest tech giants??

I suspect that it's a marketing decision; not a technical one.

The size of the teams working on GNU Linux are orders of magnitude larger. Among other things, that's why Linux can read and write Windows, MacOS and Unix filesystems in addition to its own general and special purposes ones.

An example illustrating how many companies pay people to work on Linux filesystems is

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS

Most of the people who work on MacOS are paid by Apple. At the same time, most people paid by Apple don't work on MacOS or filesystems.

Note Apple's internally developed multitasking operating system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland ... ng_system)

was scuttled at the last moment. A rescue team created the current OS by adding a filesystem and GUI to BSD Unix.

Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Sat Mar 15, 2025 4:51 pm

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