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# 8  
Old 04-30-2009
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Originally Posted by squosl
The not so short answer would be that Unix is an OS, copyright owned by Bell Labs while Linux is a kernel, and depends on a crapload of utilities from the GNU project to put the whole OS together. Linux tries to be POSIX compliant, I'm not sure Unix is entirely POSIX compliant either.
A clarification - The Unix copyright is owned by Novell. AFAIR, they acquired it via USL and the Destiny project.
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Old 04-30-2009
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Originally Posted by boarder428
I'm not finding alot of the questions fair for an intro class, espicially when they are not covered in the course material, worst off, this is a week 1 lab question. I'm still stuck on wk 1 lab and I'm already in wk 3.
I don't mean to cut this discussion off, but you could have found the answer to your very basic questions using Google and searching the net for 10 minutes.

These forums are not for homework problems or holding hands of students too lazy to do their own research.

There is no reason to come here and ask a question that is so basic, that only one Google search and you would know that OS X is based on BSD.

In fact, I don't think the question 'What is the difference between UNIX and Linux?" is so difficult. Anyone with Google and can search and do a bit of research and write a very nice response.

So my reply is simple.

Don't come here and ask people to do your simple research for you. Show some self-motivation and do research (your own work) before posting in forums asking questions you can easily answer with Google and a few minutes of focused analysis.
# 10  
Old 04-30-2009
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Originally Posted by Neo
I don't mean to cut this discussion off, but you could have found the answer to your very basic questions using Google and searching the net for 10 minutes.

These forums are not for homework problems or holding hands of students too lazy to do their own research.

There is no reason to come here and ask a question that is so basic, that only one Google search and you would know that OS X is based on BSD.

In fact, I don't think the question 'What is the difference between UNIX and Linux?" is so difficult. Anyone with Google and can search and do a bit of research and write a very nice response.

So my reply is simple.

Don't come here and ask people to do your simple research for you. Show some self-motivation and do research (your own work) before posting in forums asking questions you can easily answer with Google and a few minutes of focused analysis.
I appologize, I did google the question, wikipedia the question and many others and got so many different answers that it confused me and thought that this would be a place to get a strait forward answer! Clearly this forum must not be for newbies as it states, I'll take my questions else where from now on! Maybey you should consider removing the "Dummies" section if you don't want to answer basic questions!
# 11  
Old 05-03-2009
Referring to squosl's post (and going somewhat OT here to correct a misconception or two):

One is better served not to refer to any Mac OS version released prior to 5 September 2000 as 'OS X'. The facts are as follows:

* OS X 10 Public Beta (Fall of 2000) - marketed even though Steve Jobs wasn't "completely satisfied" with how it looked or ran;
* OS 8, 8.1, 8.5 9.0, 9.0.1 (everywhere but USA) 9.0.4, 9.1 - Not versions of OS X -- based on the original Mac 'classic' core as modified for E-RISC Macs in the years 1994 and 1995;
* Every Mac OS version since 1 April 2001 has been a Mac OS X, including the pared-down builds on the iPhone, development of which delayed the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (say it with me: "Steve, you're such a perfectionist!" Smilie ).

BZT

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Originally Posted by squosl
I adminstrated a handful of OSX servers a few years ago, OSX 8 I think. Structurally, OSX feels a lot like any other BSD variant. The problem I had is that apple inserted a layer of abstraction to make the GUI work with the system utilities, and it was easy to make changes to the system from the command line that wouldn't show up in the GUI and created interesting states after reboot. Networking and server startup/reset, IIRC, were especially "creative". There's a whole bunch of commandline utilities that are supposed to automagicallly update all the differenct configuration files to keep the GUI happy, but I don't remember what they are right now.

If you need an OS to play around with for your class, I would suggest a BSD or linux.
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