The UNIX wars are over, and Leopard won. - (View article)
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Well, you could argue that any one of the OS X ‘Big Cats' was the winner, simply because Apple has made a user-friendly UNIX system that outperforms most, if not all, other operating systems. Leopard is now fully POSIX conforming making it more inter-operable with other POSIX systems. Some other goodies are things like DTrace which will help hardcore C hackers more than those who are building widgets, but still, there must be some hardcore C hackers out there eager to build things for the Mac, and hopefully not just device drivers, though those are welcome. I look forward to using XCode 3. XCode has always been one of the best IDEs out there, not really fair to... [More]