InfoWorld’s Tom Yager dedicates this week’s Ahead of the Curve column to Apple’s decision to make Leopard fully UNIX compliant.
Praising Mac OS X using an orchestra analogy, Yager writes, “Commercial Linux is a gigantic stage filled with competing, gifted soloists. UNIX is an orchestra of high reputation playing in a hall that is a gracious historic landmark. OS X is that orchestra, but one that has been moved to a lavish hall. Apple, Darwin, and BSD will take computing to the next level by showing equal regard for tradition, performance, and users.”
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Hands on with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard – August 24, 2006
Leaked Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard screenshots – August 22, 2006
Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard is 64-bit done right, unlike Microsoft’s Windows Vista kludge – August 14, 2006
First boot with Mac OS X Leopard visual tour – August 13, 2006
Mac OS X Leopard developer features leaked – August 09, 2006
Mac OS X Leopard sneak peek highlights – August 09, 2006
Analyst: Apple’s new Mac OS X Leopard sets new bar, leaves Microsoft’s Vista in the dust – August 08, 2006
Inside Apple Mac OS X Leopard’s ‘Spaces’ – August 07, 2006
Take a ride in Apple Mac OS X Leopard’s ‘Time Machine’ – August 07, 2006
Apple previews Mac OS X Leopard featuring Time Machine, Spaces, enhanced Mail & iChat, and more – August 07, 2006
Apple previews Mac OS X Server Leopard; to ship in spring 2007 – August 07, 2006
…and Bill Gates plays his kazoo in the corner of a cardboard box. Monkey Boy Ballmer has a little pair of tin cymbals that he nervously smashes together.
Windows is the sound you make when you drop a drawerful of forks and spoons.
MS is on track to release something…….awful
How bout this one:
Windows is the sound of….
ahh, I can’t think of anything.
Here’s one:
Windows is the sound of …
scraping your fingernails on a chalkboard
Jimbo – that was a great mental image! thanks
uhm….silence?
How about…
Windows is the sound of my ass cheeks opening up and dropping a deposit in the porcelain bank.
Jimbo von Winskinheimer:
But what is the sound of one cymbal clapping? The Vista fanfare.
Windows is the messy room filled with workers selling subscriptions for the OS X orchestra hall.
OK. I’ll bite. Why is Leopard “UNIX compliant” but all other versions of OS X are not? What’s the difference? Something I missed in my readings on the Leopard preview?
talking about sounds; why can’t Apple change that damn startup sound? It has been around now for, what, 11 years? It’s not that bad…only, it doesn’t feel as fresh and high tech as it did back then.
Article about Leopard and all the comments here are about Vista.
LOL.
the lack of tonality is because the windows orchestra plays prima vista.
Just remember, a EFI based intel processor Mac has a very active firmware level that’s doing things your OS doesn’t know about.
You have completely lost your online anonymity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing
Geisr, twicing that request. Apple should talk to some high profile sound gurus like J.Zawinul or Richard James to get a fresh startup noise.
the chimp kills me . . . I gotta get the t-shirt
No, wait, no t-shirt. This shows windows being used by a thinking creature.
Occam’s Razor,
If Mac OS X is an orchestra of high reputation playing in a lavish hall, then Windows is a lone chimp banging on a toy keyboard in a living room.
MDN’s image is perfect!
@Trusted Computing:
I just grabb’d your IP and put it on DNS blacklist.
Well the chimp is using a wireless keyboard at least.
What I wish is that Windows was the Sound of Silence – nothing agains Paul and Art of course.
The Unix core in OS X is the reason I bought Apple stock 4 years ago. Being a Unix type, I understood the possibilities. And it just keeps getting better and better. But I agree with someone above, hasn’t OS X been posix compliant since the beginning? Was the literature lying? I also agree with the author. Linux is doomed by its insistence on diversity and embracing basically amateur code. OS X and FreeBSD on which it’s based are rock solid, well documented, and secure. I love being able to monitor my OS from a Unix cammand line.
Windows is an out of tune violin(ist) surrounded by half a dozen neanderthals with wire cutters….
Windows is all the instruments of the orchestra melded into one huge, massive spaghetti instrument that sounds like hell on earth…
Windows is a grand piano where the keys are randomly placed on, under and beside it to make Micrudsoft “user friendly”…
Windows is the orchestra that has Ballmer conducting and every player having the score of a different symphony resulting in in the well known ‘Redmond cacophony’…
Windows is the sounds of an orchestra where the symbals are replaced by chair throwers…
Windows is the sound of chairs smashing into hundreds of pieces.
Vista has no sound – all the chairs are wrapped up in layer-upon-layer of towels…