24 hours of Leopard: Unix certification

Erica,
I really want to upgrade to leopard ASAP, but will my unlocked iPhone running firmware 1.0.2 still work with it? Thanks!

Uh... Mo, check your calendar. It's 2007 and open source IS corporate. IBM, Sun, Apple, Oracle, just to name a few, have become very big contributors or supporters of open source.

So does this mean EMACS tetris and "doctor" games will be more secure? Or did the doctor get another degree...

It's UNIX. It does ... things. Computer things. Things like ... stuff you have to type on the command line, and stuff. Anyway, now that it's finally certified, I can type things on the command line with some real confidence!

@Michel: While it's certainly true that it's a *selling point* for corporates, the actual end-user benefits are relatively slim as far as open source is concerned: most open source efforts are concentrated on Linux, with the BSDs being secondary. Actual UNIX platforms (e.g., Solaris) come a distant third, often requiring additional tweaks and patches for things to compile and run properly… just as they do on Mac OS X today.

Now, in a year or so's time, things might be different. Mac OS X is the most widely-installed commercial Unix offering in the world, and if Leopard has any sort of reasonable penetration, it'll itself be a relatively persuasive argument for developers to be working to the standards.

So yeah, right now it's not much of a big deal (it being compliant doesn't mean more than a handful of things that wouldn't compile before now will), but it will make life a little easier for developers of cross-platform software, and it'll hopefully persuade more developers to target UNIX, rather than just “UNIX-like” systems. Mostly, though, it's a certification: a tickbox for corporations to look for.

hu... no

unix certification matters to professional and corporate to be assured the unix software will be one day available on os X and will function like on solaris or hp ux

it's also a great thing for open source software developped on unix certification, you _know_ you can deploy it on os X too.

it's important in REAL Work to gain BIG MONEY and with that BIG MONEY to build a perfect greenhouse.

you see ? no play. only work.

thanks.