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The classic Mac OS was becoming outdated and was not ideally suited for use on computers constantly connected to the internet as was becoming the trend by the mid 1990's. After exploring various options Apple Computer acquired Steve Jobs' NeXT company for $427 million, in February 1997, and used their NeXTSTEP Unix based operating system as the basis for Mac OS X which started to appear in 2000. The purchasing of Next also returned Steve Jobs to Apple.
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What operating system is used by servers?
There are Windows Server, Linux, BSD, and even Apple's own server
Is it possible to use BSD software on Unix systems?
It is possible to use BSD software on Unix systems. It is possible but many do not and they use other softwares on Unix systems beside the BSD software.
Is unix owned by apple computers?
No. Unix is a operating system that was developed by Bell Labs, now owned by Alcatel-Lucent - which spawned a whole family of Unix-like and Unix-based systems (e.g. the Linux kernel, BSD, and Solaris). Mac OS X is based on and has roots from proprietary modifications of BSD (a "flavor" of Unix-like operating systems) called Darwin.
How unix came into existence?
"Linux" as a operating system distribution (which includes the kernel as created by Linus Torvalds), was in some way influenced by Unix (this includes Apple's Mac OS and OS X, which was based on BSD, which was derived from Unix) at some point in their development.
Who is the founder of the BSD unix?
Dennis ritche
What do unix and Linux have in common?
Unix and Linux have a common command structure, similar command shell environments, common set of standard utility programs, games, development tools, functions, manual (help) file format. They do not have a common history. The Unix System Program was original developed at Bell Laboratories by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson in 1969. It was the property of AT&T (or some branch of it), was free with source to educational institutions and was later offered commercially for DEC PDP computers for 12 to 20 thousand dollars and more depending on the installed computers. Unix and BSD (a free derivative of UNIX) were licensed and ported to various other systems vendors such as DEC (ultrix, osf/1, TRU64. etc), SUN (sunos), Microsoft (xenix), IBM (AIX), HP (HPux), Apple (OSx), and many more. BSD itself had a whole bunch of different free implementations under a BSD license. There was also a lawsuit between BSD and Novell (which had purchased ownership of UNIX) claiming BSD should not be giving away BSD UNIX for free. It ended with BSD allowed to continue its free licensing after making some changes to its software base. Linux was a result of an independent project by Linus Torvald with a small group of independent hackers that became very popular. He developed a kernel system program that was compatible with UNIX but was written independently of UNIX, had no UNIX code in it, was not subject to a UNIX licensing issues, and was distributed under a GPL license. The Linux kernel together with some independently written programs, together with many free programs borrowed from BSD constitute a Linux distribution.
What are BSD sockets?
A BSD socket is basically an early version of a POSIX socket. It is used to connect a Unix system to the internet.
What is the difference between unix operating system and Linux operating system?
Linux is a Unix-like system. This means that it is inspired or influenced by Unix in some shape or form (Linux started off from Minix), but it is not directly derived from Unix. However, BSD is based on Unix, and macOS is indirectly Unix-based because of its mixed heritage with BSD.
What resembles the standard UNIX model?
GNU/Linux, and the BSD descendants follow design and operation principles largely similar to UNIX.
What is similar to Unix?
Linux, Minix, Coherent, FreeBSD, etc. These are all clones of Unix
What are the types of Unix?
1. System V 2. BSD 3. countless unix-like, unix-based, unix-compatible, unix-inspired systems (linux, AIX, Sinix, Xenix, Dynix, Solaris, MacOs etc)
What is the diff betn unix and bsd unix?
Unix in really an umbrella term for a whole category of operating systems that may share some similar code-base. Originally developed in the late 70's by Bell labs, Unix has been forked and re-factored many times by many companies. BSD is a fork of the original Unix system that is currently maintained by Berkley State University, CA. Other Unix forks come from SCO, Oracle, and a few others. On another note, Linux is a free software alternative to Unix, but shares none of the original code.
