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« on: October 20, 2009, 07:31:04 PM »
Correct me if im wrong please. I thought that windows was an operating system, Apple had its own operating system (those are the big two) Than theres linux. And linux has nothing to do with windows or apple's OS. Entirely seperate entity. and Linux was based off Unix?
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2009, 08:27:51 PM »
Quote from: falky4 on October 20, 2009, 07:31:04 PM
Correct me if im wrong please. I thought that windows was an operating system, Apple had its own operating system (those are the big two) Than theres linux. And linux has nothing to do with windows or apple's OS. Entirely seperate entity. and Linux was based off Unix?
Last I heard that was pretty much correct.  smiley
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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2009, 10:47:20 AM »
Actually Mac OS X is now based on Linux at it's core.
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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2009, 01:21:25 PM »
Quote from: wknight40 on October 21, 2009, 10:47:20 AM
Actually Mac OS X is now based on Linux at it's core.

Wrong....

OS X is Unix based OS, with parts from FreeBSD and NetBSD in the original Nextstep OS. 10.5 & 10.6 have shed some of the BSD parts, but its still a BSD unix OS at the core. There is no linux in OS X.
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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2009, 03:59:50 PM »
Ok, I'm wrong.  There is no Linux in OS X.  But did you sign up just to point that out or do you have other things to provide?
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« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2009, 04:15:53 PM »
Have to get started somewhere. Welcome to the forum sloppy87  smiley

This should have at least been in general also.

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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2009, 07:18:07 PM »
welcome sloppy87...thank you for the info...and yes this is how information gets passed on...a statement and a corrected statement...and in this forum it's okay to offer corrected information...and it's greatly appreciated. that's how we all learn.

and yep...moving this to gen discuss...
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