Noong Mar, Hul 26, 2005 ng 05:03:32PM +0800, sinabi ni Orlando Andico: > On 7/26/05, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .. > > If by "OS X x86" you mean run-of-the-mill non-Apple x86, then you're > > absolutely right. Although I do remember briefly scanning through a bit > > on Slashdot about some article that speculates that a possible strategy > > Apple may be taking is increasing market share by "leaking" Mac OS X for > > x86 to piracy channels. > > Well.. here's a scary thought: the "value add" of OS X is really > Quartz (Display PDF: which is by no means original, since Sun had > Display Postscript in NeWS/OpenWindows back in 1994), the GUI, and the > applications.
Display PostScript first appeared on Jobs' NeXT Computer, so Display PDF is a natural next step in the evolution, still under Jobs' leadership. I believe that if anything, what Apple provides as added value includes a consistent UI, very good hardware/OS integration (something that Sun also provides with their OS and hardware platforms) > But the kernel is pretty much bone-stock FreeBSD running on top of a > Mach microkernel. This part is open-source, so it wouldn't be a > stretch for people to write drivers for the kernel (tougher than just > porting FreeBSD drivers, since FreeBSD is a "client" of the Mach > microkernel, so you have to write the drivers for Mach). I tried to play around with OpenDarwin before, but my hardware wasn't well supported back then. Maybe it is time to take a look at it again. I still use Linux primarily but it is hard not to like Mac OS X. ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila _v_ [ http://www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos ][GPG: B82E42D9][http://tinyurl.com/68dkm] "Ang hindi marunong magmahal ng sariling wika ay higit pa sa malansang isda." _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
