Almost ten years has passed after posting this piece.
Everything in Apple has gone up in price.
My bone of contention here is, I have been using these utilities well over 23 years without knowing that Mac OS had been using Linux all alone.
But during the last ten years, the chip production has increased exponentially which even Moor's Law won't FIT In and buying an expensive product is counterproductive outside America.
Linux is open source and all the utilities are freely available.
What Apple Mac has done is using FREE SOFTWARE freely and has become fabulously rich and they do not pass down the that richness to the customers.
However, I have been using Android from Kit Cat and my latest android is 13the version both in Samsung Tablet and Vodafone.
I am a NOKIA Addict and I have over 10 Nokia cell phones.
My first cell phone is still working and the company that produced it has gone bust.
Its name sounds like Green-Tel and I had a tablet, too from the same company.
My third cellphone produced by Singapore was dished out (as many of my old cellphones) and its liquid crystal face started freezing but calling from it was OK.
By the way, there are over 100 phone companies globally and each company has at least 25 different models to sell.
The up market is nearly 15 billion (twice the world population) and only a very few companies have come on TOP.
Samsung has over 1650 Models to cell.
Posted on October 21, 2011
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 not used OpenOffice or Libre Office since they originated from Sun Solaris system and later became Open Source.
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.
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