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An Answer To "What is Mac OS X?"

Posted by Cliff on from the for-those-who-are-curious dept.

XCube writes: "'What is Mac OS X?' is a fascinating article over at KernelThread.com. According to Amit Singh it's a hacker-over-friendly answer to that question and a low-level taste of Apple's OS. The extensive article covers many details on Mac OS X: history, Mac firmware & boot loader, system architecture, kernel, startup, file systems, app environments, programming facilities, available software, and more. A great read if you are interested in Mac OS X, though some stuff is too technical methinks. On second thought, this may be a better read if you're *not* interested in Mac OS X! The author says he wrote it to introduce Mac OS X to the Linux User's Group at his work."

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  1. Re:Hey, Wait a second by mangu · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    why does any mention of OS X draw so much negative shit... are people really threatened


    No, no! It's only that Mac zealots get so pissed-off... It's fun to criticize anything Mac related!

  2. Re:OS X on x86, I wish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Why do you idiots keep saying "You can get Darwin."?

    People want to check out the GUI aspects of OSX, Darwin has none of this. I can't come up with a good analogy, so this will have to do.

    "I would like to check out the new features in Word"

    "Check out notepad, it is free with Windows."

  3. Re:Potential Linux Switchers: Read Up by Palshife · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mods, this wasn't at all interesting. No offense.

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  4. Re:I did the best thing by bigjnsa500 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This just confirms one thing I have found gullable with people. Make anything "flashy" and say buzz words like "original", "fastest computer on the planet", and now "Apple did it first" and people go goo-goo over it. Typical Mac user.

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