Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X

Re:Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X by dasil003 on Friday October 22, 2010 @06:08PM (#1821720)

Darwin is a decent UNIX-like operating system underpinning OS X. The inclusion of standard open source packages like the ones you mentioned increase the utility of the system for the extremely valuable minority of OS X users who happen to be programmers with barely any far-reaching implications for the vast majority who never touch them.

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Re:Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X by brianpan on Friday October 22, 2010 @08:25PM (#1822083)

That's a weird way to put it. OS X is certified Unix (capital U).

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Re:Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X by mkramlich on Friday October 22, 2010 @09:59PM (#1822274)

Some folks consider OS X Unix-like in the same way that we consider Linux Unix-like. It's not strictly speaking exactly equivalent to the original Unix, but it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, so it's pretty much a duck.

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Re:Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X by halostatue on Friday October 22, 2010 @11:26PM (#1822498)

The parent's point is that OS X has Unix certification. It's not just Unix-like, but according to The Open Group (IIRC), it is Unix.

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Re:Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X by mkramlich on Saturday October 23, 2010 @02:15AM (#1822800)

I understood that. But just because Some Folks Use Capital Letters doesn't really mean much. ;)

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