Apart from my MPB, I also have a PC. A couple days ago I decided to try Linux, because I've never tryed it before. After installing Ubuntu on my PC, I was very suprised to see that it's very very similar to Mac OS X and I was wondering who's the copycat?
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Who's the copycat Linux or Mac OS X?
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Who gives a ****.
For most things UI the mac came first. Multiple workspaces (Spaces or Mission control in lion) it originated on linux first, but then they took that from Sun's CDE and they had it off of SGI's unix. Get the picture?
Does it matter? I pick the platform that best provides a solution, I don't care if ubuntu has taken elements from OSX to make that OS easier to use, or if windows grabs some of the UI elements, or even if OSX steals some stuff
OK, first off linux does not equal Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is a brand of a linux based OS.
Anyway, Ubuntu is opensource and free. If you really want to know go grab a copy of Ubuntu 7.04 and compare it to Ubuntu 11.04 and Tiger and Lion.
OS X's influence over Ubuntu is obvious. It's not exactly that Ubuntu is a free copy of OS X, in fact, it very much is not. It's just that Ubuntu devs seem to agree that Apple does a lot of things right and is simply following similar design theory and methods.
Ubuntu is a brand of a linux based OS.
Anyway, Ubuntu is opensource and free. If you really want to know go grab a copy of Ubuntu 7.04 and compare it to Ubuntu 11.04 and Tiger and Lion.
OS X's influence over Ubuntu is obvious. It's not exactly that Ubuntu is a free copy of OS X, in fact, it very much is not. It's just that Ubuntu devs seem to agree that Apple does a lot of things right and is simply following similar design theory and methods.
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As a linux and mac user and developer for both (not for apple just develop on both) I can tell you for 100% sure that they share TONS of code. They are also completely separate.
Truthfully you could probably go down the list of major features for both OS X and (let say) KDE and find that both are sharing and contributing code and feature sets back and forth.
Never forget that large portions of OSX are open source. What it really amounts to is this. When theres a good feature Who ever doesn't have it, implements it. Then MS bastardizes it ;P
As a linux and mac user and developer for both (not for apple just develop on both) I can tell you for 100% sure that they share TONS of code. They are also completely separate.
Truthfully you could probably go down the list of major features for both OS X and (let say) KDE and find that both are sharing and contributing code and feature sets back and forth.
Never forget that large portions of OSX are open source. What it really amounts to is this. When theres a good feature Who ever doesn't have it, implements it. Then MS bastardizes it ;P
It was really bad when some versions aped the XP look and feel without actually having the same functionality. Led to lots of frustration, after all it looks like a duck should it not quack like one too?
Is that a joke? LaunchD is pretty horrid. It works, but it's totally backwards from a *nix perspective.
Remember the *nix goal is 1 task 1 program.
http://lowendmac.com/ed/winston/10kw/launchd.html
Thats not to say everyone follows it, but thats the overall goal.
And even they copied ideas off of others . Search back far enough and youll end up at cavemen rubbing sticks together.
It could be worse. Apple could implement their own version of (Microsoft's) registry hives. *shudders*
Right because dealing with hundreds of plist files are so much better.
Yes, indeed it is!!! You can roll your eyes all you want, but that doesn't make you any less wrong....
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Yes. It is do horridly non-*nix that Apple's MacOS X 10.5 and above are certified UNIX 03.