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| DATE | 2009-07-08 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Google operating system
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This is from Rueters
that the os is using Linux which allows third party developers to design
compatible applications.
Ruben
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:01:19AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:59:35AM -0400, Robert Menes wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> > >
> > > Well Apple is treading on questionable ground with OSX.
> > > when I worked with mac's I noticed an "Apple Developers License" tacked on
> > > to the install package for gcc.
> > > also OSX has an interesting history. It all started with something they
> > > called MKLinux http://www.mklinux.org/ which Apple sponsored and that was
> > > latter forked into OpenDarwin where the swapped out a lot of the GNU
> > > licensed software for BSD licensed software but not all of it. In truth
> > > MKLinux was not really Linux at all because it used the Mach kernel its
> > > actually more closely related to GNU/HURD and in reality it was a GNU/Mach
> > > distro.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > While I know about the ADL, isn't the truth that OS X stemmed out of NEXTSTEP?
> >
>
> Darwin is a BSD deritive and Aqua is somewhat a NEXTSTEP derivitive although
> truthful wmaker is MUCH better.
>
> > Yes, Apple had MkLinux and was supporting it (they and the OSF
> > Research Institute
> > work on it together), the only thing that came from MkLinux into OS X
> > was the Mach 3.0
> > kernel, as it was ported to PowerPC and allowed Apple to have a basis
> > on which to form
> > OS X. But the reality is that a vast majority of the technology in OS
> > X (including developer
> > tools and the like) came out of NEXTSTEP.
> >
>
> THere is a free toolkit for WMAKER/Afterstep called Wings and I don't know if
> it will build applications for Aqua.
>
> > According to the history section of the Darwin article on Wikipedia:
> >
> > "Darwin's heritage began with NeXT's NEXTSTEP operating system (later
> > known as OPENSTEP), first released in 1989. After Apple bought NeXT in
> > 1997, it announced it would base its next operating system on
> > OPENSTEP. This was developed into Rhapsody in 1997 and the
> > Rhapsody-based Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999. In 2000, Rhapsody was
> > forked into Darwin and released as open-source software under the
> > Apple Public Source License (APSL), and components from Darwin are
> > present in Mac OS X today."
> >
> > And more about the history of OS X from Wikipedia:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS_X
> >
>
> Branching off of X11 is the key trouble of these interfaces.
>
> Ruben
>
> > --Rob
> > --
> > Nobody's ever lost in life...they're merely taking the scenic route.
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