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I think most of these things were actually on Unix/Linux first, just maybe not as pretty as on OS X.
by Tichy 16y ago
I think most of these things were actually on Unix/Linux first, just maybe not as pretty as on OS X.
- riffraff 16y agoI'm pretty sure dash (quicksilver/spotlight) and the dock were in osx way before they appeared on linux.
- regularfry 16y agoDocks of one sort or another have been around for years. RISC OS had a dock-like icon bar in 1987, GNUStep nicked one from NeXTStep in 1994, and I'm sure there are earlier examples.
- krakensden 16y agoLets go through the list: * Spotlight - OS X * Dock - NeXT * Spaces - X11 * Software Repositories - Debian [1994]
- jcastro 16y agoDesktop search predates OSX with Beagle (unfortunately now defunct)
- krakensden 16y agoThe first pitch I ever heard for Beagle was 'it's like searchlight', so I always assumed it came later- but I looked it up, and it's hard to tell. inotify 0.8 was announced about a month after Steve Jobs started advertising spotlight, and Beagle grew out of Dashboard which certainly has design documents that indicate they wanted to do that. So... I think you might be right. On a related note, are you Ubuntu's jcastro?
- meric 16y agoFunny. Apple takes features from other OSes like Linux. Linux in turn takes features prominent in Apple's marketing strategy for OS X and replicate it in their own.