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"And these are some of the most radical and exciting new features MacOS X has had to offer since its initial release over 10 years ago." What a trollish statem
by ralfd 15y ago
"And these are some of the most radical and exciting new features MacOS X has had to offer since its initial release over 10 years ago."
What a trollish statement.
- rbanffy 15y agoWell... the maximize button continues every bit as useless as it was when introduced in System 5, IIRC. But MacOS had some very interesting ideas - they did right more-than-one-user thing (copied from Windows) and Exposé.
- hasenj 15y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but the "more than one user" thing is a Unix feature, OS X basically gets it for free. It's not copied from windows; if anything, windows tried to copy it from Unix, and it was horrible before WinXP
- rbanffy 15y agoNo. It's the desktop login thing. IIRC, you couldn't do that under X. Windows offered the lock screen and log-in as another user on XP. OSX decorated that with a 3D cube and Linuxes started getting it a couple years later.
- fader 15y agoWhile (I believe) you're right about Apple adding the 3D cube effect for multiple logins, X was explicitly designed to allow multiple concurrent users on the same machine. While many Linux distros did not have that configured by default in the early days, some did and it was certainly doable on the rest. (That's one of the things that display managers like xdm/gdm/kdm do -- handle starting and stopping of X servers for user logins.)
- rbanffy 15y agoBut, if you stop the X server, what happens to the processes connected to it?