Mac Osx

Apple's new Macintosh operating system. It's all new, and old software still mostly runs fine.

It really is Unix underneath, an open-source license for Darwin (the command-line stuff), based on FreeBsd? and NextOs?. Darwin is available separately from the full Mac OS X, and contributed to by people in and outside of Apple.

Because of all this it's been fairly straightforward for tons of Unix software, graphical and non-graphical to be modified to run in OS X.

Much thanks go to everyone who made this possible.

Yes, it's still a little slow on somethings. Folders with hundreds+ of items in things for example. Probably there will be incremental improvements for a while.

See GettingOsxGoing