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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Mac OSX vs. UNIX Post 2945 by tylerl on Tuesday 12th of June 2001 11:30:14 AM
Old 06-12-2001
MacOSX and Unix

While I'm completely new to Unix, I've read quite a bit on Mac's new OSX and it's relation to Unix. OSX is an evolutionary modification of the FreeBSD kernel complete with a very fast and fluid GUI using Adobe's Portable Document Format for it's screen preview. Apple calls this propietary modification of FreeBSD "Darwin." Knowing very little about the functionality of Unix and based solely on what I've read, Mac OSX is 100% Unix-based. OSX comes with it's own command-line terminal for programming or accessing core elements of the OS. It also fully supports Java development and ships with one entire disk dedicated to Application Development Tools (primarily using Java as well as tools to build OSX applications with the Aqua interface. There are two types of apps on OSX, Carbon and Cocoa.
 

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flurry [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window] [-root] [-preset <arg>] [-fps] DESCRIPTION
This is a port of the OSX screensaver flurry. OPTIONS
-visual visual Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. -root Draw on the root window. -preset <arg> Select a preset (classic, fire, water, psychedelic, rgb, binary, random, insane) (Insane will never be selected at random, because it requires lots of CPU/GPU power) -fps Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. AUTHORS
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