Ome Steve heeft gisteren op de MacWorld in San Francisco een demonstratie gegeven van MacOS X, dat met een compleet nieuwe op Unix gebaseerde kernel revolutionair gaat breken met het huidige (brakke) MacOS:
The crowd on hand for a Macworld Expo keynote address by Apple boss Steve Jobs burst into applause as the company's chief executive officer showed off buttons sculpted in translucent colors and application windows that cast shadows on the objects behind them.[...] With enhancements such as color coding instead of iconic symbols for the buttons that open and close application windows, the interface is known as Aqua. There are also more substantial elements of OS X, such as the Darwin core OS and Cocoa object-oriented programming environment. Jobs said that at the heart of Darwin is the Mach 3.0 microkernel from Carnegie-Mellon University and FreeBSD 3.2. And he was careful to point out that FreeBSD "is the same as Linux," the open-source operating system that is propelling such companies as Red Hat Inc. to stock-market stardom.
"It's the best plumbing of any operating system out there," he said.
Retail versies van MacOS X zullen vanaf het eind van de zomer in de winkel liggen. Zie dit artikel van Betanews voor meer info.
MacOS open source 