tomdkat said:
Wow, this is simply amazing. First, you're a NeXT guy, then you've got the
same wallpaper I had about a month ago. Talk about a small world.
This shot is
Enlightenment running on Linux. Some say the next major release of Enlightenment will be the "OS X interface on Unix".
Peace...
Enlightenment reminds me a little of Eazel's Nautilus.
Lt Major Burns said:
isn't OS X the OS X environment on UNIX?
and
eric2006 said:
Yeah, and isn't OS X UNIX based? Thats why it's so secure and stuff? The hidden filesystem reminds me of my linux computer..
Mach was developed as it's own OS, but the developers of it used major elements of BSD to provide an interface for it (rather than starting from scratch and developing their own).
NEXTSTEP started out using 4.3BSD. which continued on through OPENSTEP 4.2. Rhapsody used 4.4BSD (with elements from OpenBSD and NetBSD), and Mac OS X (Darwin) uses elements of both 4.4BSD Lite and FreeBSD.
At one point BSD was set to become the free Unix for everyone, but it got caught up in a law suit with AT&T... the suit was settled (basically the Regents of the University of California won), but by that point Linux had already gotten a good foot hold in the open source community.
Apple owns a license for System V Release 2.2 (from A/UX), but System V (which is the foundations of the other systems I use... IRIX and Solaris) has a bunch of license restrictions and is at the heart of the SCO controversy (even though I'm pretty sure I can find the documentation where Caldara, which is now SCO, released the source code for System I, III, IV and early System V under a
BSD like license).
Historical note on A/UX... even though it was using SVR2.2, Apple included parts of SVR3, SVR4 and 4.3BSD in A/UX. They just didn't have a license to sell A/UX
as SVR4.
And pretty much any of the Unix based systems can be UNIX... it is just expensive to do so.
For example, IRIX 6.5 is
UNIX® under the Open Group's earlier UNIX standard, but if SGI were to release IRIX 6.6 or even 7.x they would have to requalify under the most current standard to continue to use the name
UNIX®. The most current version of IRIX is 6.5.28 (from fall of last year), the first release of 6.5 was back in 1998.
That is one reason why Apple has not attempted to go the extra step to make Mac OS X
UNIX® under the Open Group's UNIX standard. It is enough to be Unix by the communities standard.