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Offline antony

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Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" is now UNIX 03 certified
« on: August 01, 2007, 08:57:03 AM »

Apple's upcoming operating system, Mac OS X version 10.5 “Leopard” has qualified UNIX 03 certificate by The Open Group. This means Leopard is conforming to the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads. There are UNIX pretenders, and there is the real thing. Apple is to be commended.

Besides Apple, only Sun, IBM and HP are officially certified.



News source: Leopard gets UNIX 03 certification (InfoWorld, 30 July 2007)
The certificate can be viewed here (in PDF).
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Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" is now UNIX 03 certified
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2007, 09:46:26 AM »
That's great news, I guess...

Alas, I know not what benefits befall the common user or those who use it in the larger setting, such as industry, education, research, etc.  dntknw.gif

Have you enlightenment for those of us who are a bit less sophisticated  rolleyes.gif

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Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" is now UNIX 03 certified
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2007, 10:19:28 AM »
I'm sure it will mean complainance to a standard on some of those shiney new government/military contracts.  In other words it is probably especially important where servers are concerned.  It could also mean more pressure to mount that software onto "other" hardware officially!
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Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" is now UNIX 03 certified
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2007, 11:05:59 AM »
I'd suspect it would help in the "Enterprise" ( but non-Star Wars ) markets where Apple seems to be rather slow to penetrate. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM/Microsoft." That might help maintain the computer side of the company which is tilting rather strongly toward consumer gadgets, IMHO. But it should also help make for an even more stable platform for whatever software is used in whatever hardware. At least that's my highly unsophisticated opinion from my little backwater home! smile.gif
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Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" is now UNIX 03 certified
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2007, 11:12:14 AM »
Thanks Antony, this is indeed good news!! hi.gif Arguably the best news that I've seen since Apple took on BSD and OSX.
Now I'm again looking forward to Leopard in October and maybe some new hardware!! wink.gif
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Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" is now UNIX 03 certified
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2007, 04:53:09 AM »
Just to add some information. (Similar to gunug and Xairbusdriver mentioned above.)

Art Technica has a report, Mac OS X Leopard receives UNIX 03 certification.

QUOTE("Art Technica")
It may all sound like semantics, but the certification is actually quite important for Apple and for the OS. The UNIX 03 certification means that Leopard conforms to the Single UNIX Specification Version 3 (SUS), a specification for how things like the shell, compiler, C APIs, and so on should work.

(...)

The fact that Apple can use the UNIX name more freely is cool, but the certification will have a far bigger impact on enterprise customers. Any software written for the SUS specification is easily portable to a UNIX 03 operating system, meaning that enterprise customers who need a "real" UNIX for their applications can now use Leopard servers if they so desire.


Mac OS X is not just UNIX-based or UNIX-like, it is a true UNIX operating system.
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