[Coco] KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS

[Christopher Barnett Fox]

Hmmm... Interesting to suggest OS X is "mostly" proprietary. It would be a
fascinating exercise to actually justify that by lines of code. OS X
contains a TON of open source, and Apple does contribute back quite a bit
to the community:

http://opensource.apple.com

By lines of code, I'd almost be willing to bet the majority of code
shipping as OS X is open source.

-- 
Christopher Fox



On 20140529, 20:33, "Al Hartman" <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:

>Darwin is not the Kernel, that's the name of the Open source project that
>parallels OS X. OS X itself IS NOT open source. It is mostly proprietary,
>other than the parts it has in common with Darwin. There was talk about
>using Darwin to make an Open Source clone of OS X, but as you can see, it
>never materialized. Replicating Quartz would be a non-trivial task.
>
>OS X does NOT use X Windows, it has it's own display system called
>Aqua/Quartz. You can run a version of X-Windows on OS X, but most people
>don't. It's not needed. Open Office for example, used to require
>X-Windows 
>be installed in it's early versions. but then, they ported the UI to
>Aqua/Quartz
>
>I've followed MacOS X development closely, having taken training to
>deploy 
>and support MacOS X Servers and clients, and have been working with it
>since 
>the very first release. Before my disability, I was an Apple Authorized
>Service Technician (since 1998), and had the MacOS X Server Support Desk
>certification. I deployed and supported OS X Servers in the Philadelphia
>school system in 2004 and 2005.
>
>As a start try reading this:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X
>
>It will disabuse you of all that stuff you forgot to mention, that would
>be 
>better off forgotten.
>
>-[ Al ]-
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Nobel
>
>True but the kernel is Darwin now. Early versions were NeXTStep, but
>today 
>uses Darwin dirivitive. Check the open source repo on Apples developer
>site. 
>Oh did I forget to mention OSX is open source, uses X windows etc...
>
>Bill Nobel
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
>> On May 29, 2014, at 5:28 PM, "Al Hartman" <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Um, no...
>>
>> It's actually a direct descendant of NeXTStep/Openstep.
>>
>> -[ Al ]-
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Nobel
>> Little do you know,  OSX is Linux.....
>>
>>
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