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

October 21, 2011

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 Open GL – 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.

I have used Sun Solaris, and they posed me a DVD and I still have it my archived CD/DVD images.

They were left in Ceylon.