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Happy Birthday Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the sure-why-not dept.

phillyclaude writes "Thanks to Wikipedia's Anniversaries page, I just realized Mac OS X turns three today! How could I forget such an important birthday?" Mac OS X 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001.

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  1. Powerbook rumors? by mildness · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Any guesses as to when the next PB will be out and what it might include?

    Suffering severe OS X lust I am days, nay hours, away from my first Mac in 10 or so years.

    Cheers,

    Bill

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  2. Re:Birthday Present by geoffspear · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So on your Linux, BSD, and Solaris boxen, you use the same key combination (CTRL-C) to copy something as you do on a windows box? How do you send a SIGINT through standard input on these boxes you hacked to do thing the way "the rest of the world" does?

    Go away, troll.

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  3. Re:Switching views by zero_offset · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, punctuation and everything. With that level of effort and maybe a pass from a spell checker, we might have spent our time having a productive on-topic discussion. Funny how that literacy thing helps you make progress, isn't it?

    As far as I can tell, your pursuit of industrial design is wholly irrelevant to this discussion.

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  4. Re:Birthday Present by BrookHarty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Go away, troll.

    Wheres the clue jar for the newbies...

    The mac is different in some ways, not saying that was bad, just saying when you expect something to work on OSX, its a different. That is not a troll statement, but newb, thats ok, you must be young and inexperienced. Hopefully you grow out of it.

    The first obvious one is home/end vs command up/down. Do some programming and you might notice, newb.

    The second is the way Mac's are more menu centric, when you cycle through a program, you cycle through the windows. On a other platforms, you cycle through the programs. Of course Windows311 started it the whole alt-tab, and most other OS's copied it. KDE/Gnome and are normally plugin startbars for Amiga and MAC. IceWM also has alt-tab, and a great lightweight WM with anti-aliased font support.

    And for Fink, since Konsole is an X app, it is the same on all platforms, but Fink doest come standard on the OSX. Try using Apples X-server and Fink, and tell me what differences you see?

  5. Re:Switching views by zero_offset · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Engrish?

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  6. should be misspelled correctely by philge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    engrish Ha! should be engrishu