[Coco] KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS

[Al Hartman]

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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