Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
Michel Fortin wrote:
To me it's clear that Darwin is the core on which Mac OS X and iPhone OS are
based on. Mac OS X looks like a marketing name to me; I wouldn't be
surprised if in a few years it gets renamed to Mac OS XI, or something else,
because Mac OS X 10.10 would sound bad, just as would Mac OS X 11. Perhaps
we'll see Mac OS 11, iOS or something; whatever the change, the "X" part
will have to move out at some point.
It's also possible that "Mac OS X" stays in, while Darwin changes...
This already happened once before, to "Mac OS X Server" and Rhapsody.
I believe Darwin is a more stable identifier for the architecture than Mac
OS X.
Out of all the arguments put forth so far, I think this is the
strongest. OSX is just the name of Apple's 10th Mac OS. Why would we
have version(OSX), but not version(WinXP), version(WinVista),
version(LinuxUbuntuGutsy) etc. etc. etc.?
It would be more like version(NT), if you want to compare with Windows ?
GNU/Linux operating system versioning is a long sad story all by itself.
--anders
