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What's a better product Windows 7, or Darwin?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1281528" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>All OS' are made up of 2 components..one is the Kernel, the second is the User Interface (UI)..in a lot of OS' these are intricately linked together to create the whole OS. Windows is a good example of this migration..</p><p></p><p>Windows initially was just an application that ran on top of DOS. DOS, in its most primitive sense, was acting as the Kernel for the earlier versions of Windows. With the migration to Windows 95, the DOS-level Kernel functionality was embedded into the OS..and this continues on to this day..the Kernel within Windows is the NTKERNEL..</p><p></p><p>Mac OS X follows this model..the Darwin Kernel manages all the hardware and so on and the UI is what you will be using most of the time. You can run a terminal to do things from the command line, but that's just like opening a "CMD" or "DOS" window in Windows..</p><p></p><p>Linux/BSD are different in that regard..the Kernel is developed independently of the UI and various distribution makers will take a particular version of the Kernel and then bundle in the necessary components (X-org, Gnome/KDE/XFCE/TWM/Enlightenment/blah blah) and a whole bunch more applications to create a distribution that collectively serves a purpose..</p><p></p><p>So Ubuntu, is a Gnome based Linux distro, while Fedora is a KDE based Linux distro..</p><p></p><p>You can, however, take just the Linux Kernel and couple that with a VERY simple filesystem and run it on very minimal systems which need an OS but don't need a UI which can be quite a resource hog..</p><p></p><p>So I get what you're trying to do, but there really is no short cut to being able to experience a Mac running OS X short of purchasing your future Mac..<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Yes I do know a little bit about Linux..<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> I use it all the time at work to create embedded devices..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1281528, member: 110816"] All OS' are made up of 2 components..one is the Kernel, the second is the User Interface (UI)..in a lot of OS' these are intricately linked together to create the whole OS. Windows is a good example of this migration.. Windows initially was just an application that ran on top of DOS. DOS, in its most primitive sense, was acting as the Kernel for the earlier versions of Windows. With the migration to Windows 95, the DOS-level Kernel functionality was embedded into the OS..and this continues on to this day..the Kernel within Windows is the NTKERNEL.. Mac OS X follows this model..the Darwin Kernel manages all the hardware and so on and the UI is what you will be using most of the time. You can run a terminal to do things from the command line, but that's just like opening a "CMD" or "DOS" window in Windows.. Linux/BSD are different in that regard..the Kernel is developed independently of the UI and various distribution makers will take a particular version of the Kernel and then bundle in the necessary components (X-org, Gnome/KDE/XFCE/TWM/Enlightenment/blah blah) and a whole bunch more applications to create a distribution that collectively serves a purpose.. So Ubuntu, is a Gnome based Linux distro, while Fedora is a KDE based Linux distro.. You can, however, take just the Linux Kernel and couple that with a VERY simple filesystem and run it on very minimal systems which need an OS but don't need a UI which can be quite a resource hog.. So I get what you're trying to do, but there really is no short cut to being able to experience a Mac running OS X short of purchasing your future Mac..:) Yes I do know a little bit about Linux..;) I use it all the time at work to create embedded devices.. [/QUOTE]
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