Somebody told me that the Mac OSX is developed based on UNIX. I have been working with Mac for many years but this is the first time I heard that OSX is based on UNIX platform or is designed on UNIX coding or something like that. Could someone give me a detailed answer?
2006-11-04 23:13:32 · 6 answers · asked by hammad31 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Yes. And not just "based on". It IS a unix flavour, called "Free BSD".
To one of the answerers above - all the mordern unix systems (OS/X included) have GUI, but it is not a part of OS.
2006-11-05 01:54:47 · answer #1 · answered by n0body 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I seem to remember Jobs signed some agreements about promoting the use of Mac Software on other machines when he came back. Of course what made those circumstances irrelevant was the ipod but I wouldn't, as the saying goes, bother my pretty little head about the legalities. OTOH, sensible investigations of Unix are to be encouraged. What Jobs has done is take Unix and put his own proprietary window manager over it. There is a Unix emulator which runs in Windows called Cygwin. You will find links to all kinds of information about it in my sources. It includes the GCC compiler and in fact in many ways Bloodshed Software's DevC++ which is also the GCC compiler is very similar to it. I would suggest you get to know Cygwin and maybe Linux before you think about porting Apple's software.
2016-05-22 00:45:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sort of.
The underlying system is based on FreeBSD which was a re-write of
BSD with open source software. BSD was an evolution of the UNIX
from the 70s.
Note, however, that NONE of the code from the original UNIX exists
in FreeBSD because software developers developed their own versions.
Most of the new stuff is provided under the GNU license (open source).
Linux also uses a great deal of software developed under the GNU
license, but the kernel is different.
2006-11-04 23:21:04 · answer #3 · answered by Elana 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
OSX is based upon a Unix core..yes this is indeed the case. Bill Gates is also the devil, BTW. Keep using Mac, Linux, anything but microsoft
2006-11-04 23:17:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
yeah. the only defference is UNIX is CBI ( command based interface ) & MAC OS X is GUI ( graphic user interface )
2006-11-04 23:17:16 · answer #5 · answered by Rockytruelyrox 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
why yes it is this site has som mac links http://bartman1.blogspot.com/ hope it helps
2006-11-04 23:15:03 · answer #6 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋