An Answer To "What is Mac OS X?"

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday January 7, 2004 @06:15AM 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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The story behind OSX by codepunk · 2004-01-07 06:38 · Score: 0, Redundant

OSX is probably more friendly then linux but it will never be as flexible. OSX only has to deal with a extremely small amount of targeted hardware. Hell anyone can build a good system around a specific hardware specification. If linux only had to deal with a specific drive, a specific processor, a specific cdrom things would be extremely easy now wouldn't it.

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Ever heard of fink? by Millennium · 2004-01-07 07:38 · Score: 1, Redundant

That's precisely the sort of thing that Fink is for: easy building and installation of Unix tools on OSX.

Incidentally, it's based on apt-get, that beloved tool of Debian users everywhere.