Slashdot: OSX now officially UNIX

This article has a bit more information.

 

What does this mean for me, a regular mac user planning to buy 10.5 when it comes out. How does this change my life?

The Stig

 

It means that Unix certified applications will always run on the Mac.

 

intriguing... especially this bit, just to potentially make PPC users cry:

 

What kind of application would be helpful to a basic end user like myself?

The Stig

 

Not much. But in the science-community and the like this is a big deal.

 

Not much, but this is more important for businesses of all sizes who are considering using OS X as production server.

 

This is entirely for management types who still hold the UNIX brand in high regard, beyond marketing it isn't very important.

 

this is a good thing.

 

Yes, it is. But it really is not really a particularly big deal. Apple worked very hard to make Darwin fully POSIX-compliant, but did not seek POSIX certification. Darwin is now the first BSD which has received UNIX 03 certification. This is a nice piece of paper to have, but it is not like your can suddenly do things now that you could not do before. But, it does give the Mac community bragging rights to the only official UNIX-based consumer-oriented operating system.

 

This need more elaboration, any examples?

 

Oracle

Currently, the only commerical enterprise level database that runs on a Mac is Oracle and they haven't touched it in 18 months. Maybe this will get them off their butt and support Intel and Leopard. It doesn't make sense to use a old PowerPC based, Panther Server version of an old version of Oracle.