Hello,
On 10/13/2010 9:00 AM, Mark S. Waterbury wrote:
Mac OS X is not based on Linux, it is based on FreeBSD (Darwin).
Mac OSX is based on NeXTSTEP. When Steve Jobs left Apple many years ago
(1985?), he went on to found another company called NeXT. Later, Apple
bought NeXT, thus bringing Steve Jobs back into their employment, and he
ultimately returned to the CEO position...
anyway.. NeXT made computer systems, and an OS called NeXTSTEP (which
later was called OPENSTEP) and is the core of Mac OSX.
Apple hired Jordan Hubbard (co-founder of FreeBSD) to oversee the Unix
portions of OSX. Hubbard incorporated a lot of code from FreeBSD and
NetBSD into OSX -- so it's something of a hybrid of BSD and NeXTSTEP --
but the majority is still NeXTSTEP.
Since it's POSIX compliant, almost any code written for Linux or BSD can
be recompiled to run natively on OSX without changes... that might be
what you're thinking of.
--
Anyway... the fact still remains that IBM has chosen to support a few
flavors of Linux -- and they've picked ones that hardly anyone uses --
for RDP.
I sincerely hope that (although unsupported) RDP does work on other
OSes... particularly Ubuntu and Mac OSX, because those are the ones
that most IBM i developers will be running. (I'd love to see FreeBSD,
which is what I personally use -- but I recognize that it's not a big
market for IBM.)
But, gosh, it sure would've been nice if IBM had bothered to find out
what people are running before they chose which OSes they'd support.
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