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> I don't think Photoshop is a good counter-example since OSX has top-tier graphics applications AND runs on Linux. No, OSX runs on the Darwin kernel, not Linu
by jessedhillon 15y ago
> I don't think Photoshop is a good counter-example since OSX has top-tier graphics applications AND runs on Linux.
No, OSX runs on the Darwin kernel, not Linux. For a number of reasons, you can't take an app designed for OSX and run it on a laptop using Ubuntu (or another Linux distro).
- rbanffy 15y agoTo be fair, it would be rather trivial to port the upper levels of OSX to any other Unix-like OS. Darwin exposes a very BSD-like interface to applications. Apple considered, for some time, replacing classic MacOS with Linux (I have used Apple's MkLinux a lot).
- politician 15y agoThanks, you're right. I should have checked my facts before saying that.