Well, The Open Group, which certifies compliance with the UNIX specification, says that both Mac OX 10.5 and 10.6 (i.e. Leopard and Snow Leopard) meet the current UNIX 03 standard--along with Solaris 10, and a couple of recent versions of AIX and HP-UX.
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ So although *you* may think that the only reason people think OS X is Unix-like is that it uses a NetBSD kernel (and I think the people from CMU might argue with you on exactly what kind of kernel OS X does use) those who certify such things seem to think OS X pretty much *is* UNIX. Perhaps you should lobby to get your minimum requirements added to the next UNIX spec? Having worked with Unices for more than two decades, it doesn't seem to me that the differences between OS X and other current *nix-like OS's are any greater than the differences amongst the various commercial and non-commercial *nixes of the last 20-odd years. Unless you go back 30 years to Seventh Edition, the degree of variation seems to be rather constant. And Seventh Edition didn't have X, either. Or package management. Or... Of course, many hackers out there nowadays seem to think the only One True Unix is Linux as they've had no real exposure to any other *nix. And any variation from the Unix distro they're most familiar with isn't "real" Unix--I've had the unfortunate experience of trying to get their code to compile on non-Linux systems. They'd be wrong, too. Arthur Gaer [email protected] On Jan 30, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > In my opinion, running the netbsd kernel doesn't make OSX much more > unix-like, than running the VMS kernel makes Windows NT vms-like. > They're > wholly separate beasts, with almost no connection to the platform from > whence it originally derived. > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
