Darwin is not a weak UNIX OS. Darwin can do anything that OS X can do. It includes the Foundation and Core Foundation languages that OS X uses which provide a lot of functionality. The only thing Darwin is really missing is the GUI and the bundled applications. Install Darwin, then X11, then GNUStep, and you have a very nice Mac OS X clone. No, you're not going to get OS X's closed source window manager, but saying Darwin is a weak UNIX OS is just arrogant. As long as it doesn't involve a Aqua GUI, Darwin can do anything OS X can do. The reason Cocoa doesn't work is because its mostly a language for building a GUI. All of Cocoa's non-GUI classes are simply abstractions on Foundation and Core Foundation, which as I said, are included with Darwin. Your problems were probably due to Darwin's weak drivers on the x86 side. After all, Darwin is mainly a PowerPC OS. I'm really surprised someone hasn't ported some drivers, and added a X11 window manager and GNUStep to a Darwin distribution for x86. It would create a OS able to decently run most OS X software.
He didn't write those. Take a look at his site. Only MailListKing belongs to him. All the other software was only advertised on the fake fraudulent site. Jees... lay off the poor guy and rtfws...
Apple's approach isn't half baked, its necessary.
The API's between OS 9 and OS X are completely different. Carbon is an attempt to get everything under the OS 9 toolbox that is still relevant to OS X working. Trying to run OS 9 applications natively under OS X would be a disaster, probably because some app would call some command written in 1986 which would be unimplementable in OS X. Game Sprockets don't exist in OS X, what happens when an app makes a call to a Game Sprockets API? Extensions don't exist in OS X because of the design of the kernel. What happens when an OS 9 app makes an extension related call? Software compatibility works in Windows because everything is still written off the Win32 API. If Microsoft moved to a new kernel which couldn't run Win32 they'd be in the same spot Apple is. Also, Windows XP is really Windows NT. Windows NT has been around for years. Many developers have had a long time to get running on Windows XP.
"The same goes for Apple. They have teamed up with an Antivirus software company with imac when they could have just included that feature in the OS."
huh?
If there is no OS X version of CodeWarrior, what is this, and why does Apple use Codewarrior as a benchmark for speed against XCode (with Apple even admitting that Codewarrior is still faster)?
And yes, Motorola created CodeWarrior. Metrowerks might even still be owned by them.
ATI does most certainly write their own drivers.
Apple handles any integrated card drivers because, well, they are Apple built OEM cards. My Powerbook cannot use the ATI drivers because my card is an Apple onboard ATI card. My G3 tower could use the ATI drivers because it used a ATI PCI card. (Both my Apple supplied Rage 128 and my aftermarket Radeon 7000 took ATI drivers).
Nvidia also wrote their OS X drivers as far as I'm aware, although I'm sure they work very closely with APple.
You can just get a QuickTime plugin for OGG, it should also work in iTunes.
Rumor has it the next iTunes may play ogg anyway.
Or you could just get an ogg player and not use iTunes.
They do have Linux for the G5 (ydl.com).
Mac OS X supports a two button mouse natively with no extra drivers. In fact, it supports up to as many buttons as your mouse has.
No, he wants to bring international troops in and WITHDRAW US troops. He wants to bring in troops from other countries, not ours.
Read Kerry's plan. The draft is not involved.
I'd be quaking in my boots about now...
Seriously, the opinion has really shifted. At first everyone thought the PSP would smackdown the DS. But Nintendo bit by bit is slowly showing us that there is far more to the DS than meets the eye. While Sony seems to have shown all their cards for the PSP, it looks like Nintendo has a whole lot up their sleeve.
Uhhhh... This sounds just like the XServe...
http://apple.com/xserve
Get a nice KVM switch and use them with one display to your hearts content. Thats what we do at work.
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Tiger will run on anything with a Firewire port, so yes.
Darwin is not a weak UNIX OS. Darwin can do anything that OS X can do. It includes the Foundation and Core Foundation languages that OS X uses which provide a lot of functionality. The only thing Darwin is really missing is the GUI and the bundled applications. Install Darwin, then X11, then GNUStep, and you have a very nice Mac OS X clone. No, you're not going to get OS X's closed source window manager, but saying Darwin is a weak UNIX OS is just arrogant. As long as it doesn't involve a Aqua GUI, Darwin can do anything OS X can do. The reason Cocoa doesn't work is because its mostly a language for building a GUI. All of Cocoa's non-GUI classes are simply abstractions on Foundation and Core Foundation, which as I said, are included with Darwin. Your problems were probably due to Darwin's weak drivers on the x86 side. After all, Darwin is mainly a PowerPC OS. I'm really surprised someone hasn't ported some drivers, and added a X11 window manager and GNUStep to a Darwin distribution for x86. It would create a OS able to decently run most OS X software.
Apple shares the source for their open source derivatives, and even ported them to x86.
He didn't write those. Take a look at his site. Only MailListKing belongs to him. All the other software was only advertised on the fake fraudulent site. Jees... lay off the poor guy and rtfws...
Apple's approach isn't half baked, its necessary. The API's between OS 9 and OS X are completely different. Carbon is an attempt to get everything under the OS 9 toolbox that is still relevant to OS X working. Trying to run OS 9 applications natively under OS X would be a disaster, probably because some app would call some command written in 1986 which would be unimplementable in OS X. Game Sprockets don't exist in OS X, what happens when an app makes a call to a Game Sprockets API? Extensions don't exist in OS X because of the design of the kernel. What happens when an OS 9 app makes an extension related call? Software compatibility works in Windows because everything is still written off the Win32 API. If Microsoft moved to a new kernel which couldn't run Win32 they'd be in the same spot Apple is. Also, Windows XP is really Windows NT. Windows NT has been around for years. Many developers have had a long time to get running on Windows XP.
Well, it wasn't Steve. He wasn't even at Apple when Graphing Calculator was done. :)
"The same goes for Apple. They have teamed up with an Antivirus software company with imac when they could have just included that feature in the OS." huh?
If there is no OS X version of CodeWarrior, what is this, and why does Apple use Codewarrior as a benchmark for speed against XCode (with Apple even admitting that Codewarrior is still faster)? And yes, Motorola created CodeWarrior. Metrowerks might even still be owned by them.
ATI does most certainly write their own drivers. Apple handles any integrated card drivers because, well, they are Apple built OEM cards. My Powerbook cannot use the ATI drivers because my card is an Apple onboard ATI card. My G3 tower could use the ATI drivers because it used a ATI PCI card. (Both my Apple supplied Rage 128 and my aftermarket Radeon 7000 took ATI drivers). Nvidia also wrote their OS X drivers as far as I'm aware, although I'm sure they work very closely with APple.
You can just get a QuickTime plugin for OGG, it should also work in iTunes. Rumor has it the next iTunes may play ogg anyway. Or you could just get an ogg player and not use iTunes.
And uhhhhh... what P2P doesn't run on Mac exactly? There are tons of 3rd party P2P clients on Mac.
Thats different. That is a port of WINE to PPC Darwin to run x86 exe's on Mac OS X. The grandparent is asking about Mac OS X programs on Linux.
Steve couldn't have decreed anything because he was in charge of NeXT, not Apple. When Apple bought NeXT that was when Steve got back in to Apple.
So yes, Apple engineers were involved in the choice. Steve only resumed being CEO of Apple around 1997.
Glenda Adams of Aspyr has commented that Doom 3 contains no SMP code and she doesn't plan to add any.
They do have Linux for the G5 (ydl.com). Mac OS X supports a two button mouse natively with no extra drivers. In fact, it supports up to as many buttons as your mouse has.
Which you could pull from the normal military... or new enlistments... Draft into special forces? Are you nuts?
No, he wants to bring international troops in and WITHDRAW US troops. He wants to bring in troops from other countries, not ours. Read Kerry's plan. The draft is not involved.
I'd be quaking in my boots about now... Seriously, the opinion has really shifted. At first everyone thought the PSP would smackdown the DS. But Nintendo bit by bit is slowly showing us that there is far more to the DS than meets the eye. While Sony seems to have shown all their cards for the PSP, it looks like Nintendo has a whole lot up their sleeve.
Why would Apple want to pay money for Real's sub-par codec?
Uhhh... I think you mean the Dual 2.5 there... The Dual 2 is only $2500.
OMG! Mouse with vibrator! Off to the patent office I go!
A new wave of panic is sweeping RealNetworks.
Wow... Good job in letting others decide your vote for you! Yay for no free thought! : thumbs up :
So you're talking about something like Citrix?
Uhhhh... This sounds just like the XServe... http://apple.com/xserve Get a nice KVM switch and use them with one display to your hearts content. Thats what we do at work.