Let the unix variant geek wars begin! So the terminal or shell is where
you type commands to be processed by the unix side of OSX. OSX is
actually based on the Mach Kernel and NextStep, which was bought when
Apple acquired Next and brought Steve Jobs back to the helm. Next Step
incorporates some parts of FreeBSD and NetBSD. For those who develop Mac
apps, many of the methods and data objects still start with NS (such as
NSTableView or NSWindow) which is from the NextStep lineage. Anyway,
there are a jillion variants of Unix and OSX has their own take on how
things are done. If you are deploying to BSD, Linux, Solaris, Xenix, AIX
or something else it's always best to test on whatever platform your
customer uses. I suspect OSX is the most deployed commercial unix
variant out there while Linux is probably the largest free one.
CB
On 12/29/13 12:56 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
No, the mac terminal isn't BSD. It has bits and pieces of BSD, but it
is different. I wish for my libraries to compile successfully on BSD,
not the cobbled mess OSX has put together.
On 12/29/2013 11:18 AM, - wrote:
Someone asked:
"I had a quick question. I don't have the $100 something for vmware
wany fusion, but I wanted to install BSD on my IMac."
MMe:
Bsd is for all practical purposes the unix os under the hood for a
mac. It is terminal. Many bsd apps will run as is andany that don't
almost any one would want can be had in macports or homebrew.
XB
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