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Leopard Is Unix To The Core
By Robert | August 2, 2007
As every body knows, Apples pride and joy of an OS is based on BSD Unix. Well this time around with the latest version of the OS they have let a bit more of it’s heritage show through.
The Open Group has just awarded OS X 10.5 Leopard UNIX 03 certification, meaning that Apple joins Sun, HP, and IBM as the only certified vendors. The spec covers libraries, system calls, terminal interfaces, commands and utilities, internationalization and the C language, meaning that software vendors can easily port server and non-GUI apps to and from OS X with minimal effort. Although this was already mostly the case, it’s always nice to see the circle complete.
It’s good to see that the thing that has always made Apples operating systems so great will be taken advantage of more in the soon the be released Leopard version. This is one more reason why we can’t wait for the new version.
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