Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers

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Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers.

Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers.

 

1. It is a Unix derivative i.e. BSD (Berkeley Systems Distribution) which form the basis for both Mac OS X and the iOS that powers the iPhone.

 

2. It was hooked to a O.E.M platform (Power PC) till recently.

 

3. BSD is what Darwin is based on.

 

4. Darwin is Apple’s Open Source Unix operating system foundation.

Somebody should revive this, now that Steve Job is no more.

 

The Darwin kernel is equivalent to the Mac OS X kernel plus the BSD libraries and commands essential to the BSD Commands environment.

 

5  It uses Open Source OpenGL – Standard 3D graphics library

 

6. jEdit  4.3

 

7. Perl  5.10  Accessible through Terminal under Utilities

 

8. Python  2.6.1  Accessible through Terminal under Utilities

 

9. Python  3.3  Accessible through Terminal under Utilities

 

10. Ruby  1.8.7  Accessible through Terminal under Utilities

 

Items 6 to 10  are programming languages (now mostly platform independent) which made the backbone of  Linux.

 

11. Audacity   is a Linux derivative

 

12. Thunderbird is a Linux derivative

 

13. VLC    Media Player is a Linux derivative

 

14. Geogebra             is a Linux derivative

 

15.TeX

 

No operating system is Pure and I have  used OpenOffice or Libre Office since they originated from Sun Solaris system and later became Open Source.

 

One does not need Microsoft Word.

AbiWord is my pet writing Utility!