Re:My 2.something cents CDN
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Well, they do have OS X Server which is certainly a different beast to Mac OS X Consumer which we're talking about here. They've just drawn the line between their two OS products in a different place.
OS X Server will most probably disappear when OS X (consumer) is released. At that time, Apple will probably release a Server add-on package (with WebObjects and the such).
So everyone in the end will be running the same OS.
Re:pretty, yet incomprehensible
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What do the color circles do?
Red one closes the window, yellow one minimizes it (puts it in the Dock), green one maximizes it (the window grows to the appropriate size to fill its contents).
Also, when you mouse over the buttons, symbols appear in the buttons (X, -, +)
What is each of the completely textless icons at the bottom supposed to mean? Is it like the "mystery meat navigation" that Jakob Nielsen complains about so much at useit.com?
The name of the item appears when you put the mouse over a dock icon. Also, the icon for minimized windows is the actual representation of the window, minimized (does this makes sense). All done on the fly.
Re:But how stable is it?
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Think of it this way: forget MacOS. OS X is NeXTStep using a BSD kernel instead of a Mach kernel.
Actually, Mac OS X uses a Mach kernel with a BSD layer, just like NeXTStep.
Ingredients for OS X:
- Darwin core (Mach + BSD, in an open source package)
- Classic, Carbon, Cocoa APIs (Classic: for MacOS 8/9 compatibility ; Carbon: updated OS 8/9 apps that take advantage of memory protection, preemptive multitasking and Aqua interface; Cocoa: cool object-oriented API)
- Quartz display system (for 2D)
- OpenGL (for 3D)
- Aqua (the GUI)
Hope that clears things up for those less familiar with OS X.
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OS X Server will most probably disappear when OS X (consumer) is released. At that time, Apple will probably release a Server add-on package (with WebObjects and the such).
So everyone in the end will be running the same OS.
Red one closes the window, yellow one minimizes it (puts it in the Dock), green one maximizes it (the window grows to the appropriate size to fill its contents).
Also, when you mouse over the buttons, symbols appear in the buttons (X, -, +)
What is each of the completely textless icons at the bottom supposed to mean? Is it like the "mystery meat navigation" that Jakob Nielsen complains about so much at useit.com?
The name of the item appears when you put the mouse over a dock icon. Also, the icon for minimized windows is the actual representation of the window, minimized (does this makes sense). All done on the fly.
Actually, Mac OS X uses a Mach kernel with a BSD layer, just like NeXTStep.
Ingredients for OS X:
- Darwin core (Mach + BSD, in an open source package)
- Classic, Carbon, Cocoa APIs (Classic: for MacOS 8/9 compatibility ; Carbon: updated OS 8/9 apps that take advantage of memory protection, preemptive multitasking and Aqua interface; Cocoa: cool object-oriented API)
- Quartz display system (for 2D)
- OpenGL (for 3D)
- Aqua (the GUI)
Hope that clears things up for those less familiar with OS X.