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  1. Oct 21, 2019 · macOS is a UNIX 03-compliant operating system certified by The Open Group. It has been since 2007, starting with MAC OS X 10.5. The only exception was Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, but compliance was regained with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Amusingly, just as GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix," XNU stands for "X is Not Unix ."

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    For the family of Mac operating systems, see Mac operating systems. For the Ugandan school nicknamed "Macos", see Makerere College School. macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

    • March 24, 2001; 22 years ago
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  4. Aug 10, 2022 · Both can run Unix commands in the terminal, and the user experience is vastly different from Windows. And not all Windows applications and games are available for macOS and Linux. This is why some people even think Apple’s macOS is based on Linux. But that is not the case. macOS is not Linux despite the similarities.

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  5. e. Darwin is the core Unix operating system of macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source operating system, first released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code derived from NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, [3] other BSD operating systems, [6] Mach, and ...

    • November 15, 2000; 22 years ago
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  6. The UNIX trademark is owned by The Open Group, which basically uses it as a certification mark for SUS-compliance. OS X has been registered as a UNIX 03-compliant product since 10.5, so it qualifies as UNIX (not just UN X or Unix-like) in that sense. Most GNU/Linux distributions are not registered as SUS-compliant, so they should be called ...

  7. Jul 21, 2022 · Brief History of macOS and Linux The main parts of macOS and Linux are the kernel, core utilities, the GUI or desktop environment, and applications. macOS is based on a BSD Unix kernel known as Darwin which is open-source. The other parts of macOS (for example, the GUI and core applications) are closed-source and proprietary.

  8. Feb 10, 2018 · Where does macOS X stand in the *nix world ? In a very specific definition, macOS version 10.13 High Sierra on Intel-based hardware is compliant to the UNIX 03 standard and to quote the pdf certificate, "Apple Inc. has entered into a Trademark License Agreement with X/Open Company Limited."

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