Unix, Xgrid, Bonjour, Operating System Design and more
John Fisher, Apple
Date and time: Tuesday 21st June 2005 at 14:00
Location: UG40, School of Computer Science
Host: Pascal Honore
Since the introduction of OSX five years ago, the Macintosh operating system has been built on a solid Unix core called Darwin (a derivative of FreeBSD) and comes packaged with many standard Linux/BSD components, including an X11 Window server. This allows, for instance, Open Source projects as the GIMP Project and the OpenOffice Project to run alongside the more classic applications such as Photoshop and Microsoft Office. This talk will present some of the design strengths of OSX before focusing on two of the well known technologies that come with it: Xgrid and Bonjour.