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Apple In Court Over Unix Trademark
News Apple Computer is being sued by The Open Group, the San Francisco company that claims ownership of the Unix trademark, for using the term Unix in conjunction with its Mac OS X operating system without a licence.
[June 12, 2003, 8:29]
Will Unix Roots Help Apple Grow?
News In the early 1990s, the company sold A/UX, a version of Unix System V, designed to run on Apple's Macs and servers as an alternative to the Mac OS. By choosing to build Mac OS X on Unix, the company opens up thousands of new applications to Mac...
[May 22, 2001, 9:00]
X11: Apple's Secret Formula
News Apple has quietly extended an overture to the Unix community, with the release of software that would make it easier for Unix applications to run on the Mac operating system. Apple believes X11 is the key to bringing Unix applications to Mac OS X.
[January 22, 2003, 12:28]
Open Source Mogul Joins Apple
News Apple Computer has hired Jordan Hubbard, founder and leader of the effort behind the open-source FreeBSD version of Unix, to work on Apple's operating system derived in part from FreeBSD. Hubbard, one of the co-founders of FreeBSD, launched in 1993...
[June 27, 2001, 10:31]
US Telecoms Giant Looks At Throwing Windows Out
Talkback Since Apple to a Unix OS (OSX) they have basically the same marketshare, but no, that is ZERO known viruses have been found that affect OSX. The design of Unix systems, OSX, and Linux systems negates the possibility of windows like viruses running...
[October 6, 2004, 18:43]
OS X Flaws Draw Hackers' Eyes
News The flaw affected both the FreeBSD version of Unix, which forms the core components of Apple's operating system, and by extension, Mac OS X. The rising popularity of the current Mac OS X and the new operating system's foundation in the ubiquitous...
[July 4, 2001, 9:04]
Open-source Guru Finds Mac OS X Too Restrictive
News Apple may be courting open-source developers with its Unix-based Mac OS X, but it doesn't have all open-source gurus convinced. Darwin is based on FreeBSD, an open-source implementation of Unix, and Mach 3.0.
[March 26, 2002, 16:49]
Apple Says OS X Sales Strong In UK
News The compatibility difficulties arise because the new OS is based on Unix, a very stable, multi-tasking system originally developed by Bell Labs in the early 1970s to run its telephone networks. Apple Computer has sold "almost all" of the UK...
[March 27, 2001, 7:15]
Apple Ships Rack-mounted Server
News The company in May unveiled Xserve, which runs Unix-based Mac OS X. I think the Unix-based operating system will attract some Linux users. Apple has begun shipping its Xserve rack-mounted server, as the company looks to bolster its position in the...
[July 1, 2002, 16:41]
Apple Sets Up Rendezvous With Windows, Linux
News Apple Computer has published updated source code to its Rendezvous network-configuration technology for use in Windows, Linux, Unix and Java applications. While Apple open-sourced the code to Rendezvous for the Mac OS X and the underlying Unix-like...
[July 1, 2004, 13:10]
Apple Moves Into Asian Server Market
News It uses one unit of rack space and runs the Unix-based Mac OS X operating system. Unix administrators will find the interface familiar, he said, because Mac OS X is based on Unix, the most common large-server operating system.
[August 5, 2002, 15:07]
Apple Pitches Mac OS X To Linux Fans
News While Apple's user interface is generated through the famous Aqua technology, OS X also allows users to run X11, a windowing system widely used on Unix and Linux. With the switch to OS X a couple of years ago, however, Apple began to tap into the...
[October 10, 2002, 16:01]
Apple Servers Take On A New Form
News They never had a suitable (operating system)," Glaskowsky said, referring to Apple's past efforts to bring Unix to the Mac. He also noted that the timing is right, with Apple now using the Unix-based Mac OS X.
[May 15, 2002, 8:42]
Mac OS X: The Great Debate
News Dan White, a Unix developer in Maryland, is among the Mac enthusiasts who have already picked up a copy of the new operating system. I've been doing Unix software development for years and years now, and when I heard Mac was going Unix, I thought...
[March 30, 2001, 7:50]
Apple To Build Browser Into OS X
News X11 is a windowing system used by Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, and its inclusion in OS X will make it easier for users to run Unix and Linux applications. Apple is planning on taking a page out of Microsoft's book, and integrating its...
[January 9, 2003, 16:26]
Apple Refreshes Mac OSX
News Linux creator Linus Torvalds recently trashed the version of Unix that Apple used to build Mac OS X, calling it "a piece of crap," but later tempered his comments in an email to ZDNet UK Apple moved to Unix at the core, bringing Mac OS X on par...
[April 17, 2001, 8:08]
Apple Updates ITunes To Plug Security Hole
Talkback I say let's have more interest from hackers- let the community that is Open Source work more with Apple and we will continue to see the march towards a world that adopts Unix as its staple OS, rather than the Fisher Price (and clunky) alternative...
[January 13, 2005, 9:02]
Ah But...
Talkback Surely your statment regarding Apple UI is flawed stating that is only sitting on their brand of Unix (Darwin)? It would not surprise me that Apple could port their UI to any other Unix including Linux.
[March 10, 2007, 8:36]
Re: Another Choice But...
Talkback Its a pity Apple does not let OSX run on non Apple hardware as it is my opinion that its the best Unix based desktop OS. OSX isn't really Unix as such. It is based on a Unix-like kernel, but that's waaay under the hood.
[March 9, 2007, 17:38]
Apple To Unleash Tiger On 29 April
News Apple also detailed the planned features for the Unix-based server edition of Tiger, including support for 64-bit processors and the iChat Server for instant messaging. It's the fourth major update to Mac OS X since the first iteration of the Unix...
[April 13, 2005, 9:45]
