Mac OS X
| Desktop OS market share as of May, 2009[1] |
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| Microsoft Windows - 87.75% |
| Mac OS X and Mac OS - 9.81% |
| Linux - 0.99% |
| Solaris - 0.01% |
| Other - 1.44% |
Mac OS X is the name of an operating system, for computers made by Apple Inc. These are called Macintosh computers, or Macs. It is different from other operating systems, because Mac OS X is supposed to run only on Macs and not on other computers. However, people have made the OS run on computers that are not Macs. These are called Hackintosh.
The "X" in Mac OS X, which is read aloud as "Mac Oh Ess Ten", comes from roman numerals. Mac OS X first came out in 2001, and is completely different than the Mac OS that it replaced. Mac OS X is a UNIX OS that is based on NEXTSTEP, an older OS that Apple bought and turned into Mac OS X. Mac OS X and NEXTSTEP have a background in a kind of UNIX called BSD (more specifically FreeBSD and NetBSD). The core of Mac OS X is an open source OS called Darwin, but Darwin cannot run Mac OS X software.
Mac OS X releases are named after kinds of big cats and have a version number that starts with 10. The newest version of Mac OS X is called "Lion" and is version 10.7. The version before that was called "Snow Leopard."
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- ↑ Operating System Market Share, Feburary 2009, courtesy of Net Applications, a marketing company which obtains its data from the Alexa Toolbar or related products. Because people who install these products on their computers are not always aware that the product reports web browsing habits back to the marketers at Alexa some security software considers the Alexa Toolbar spyware and removes it. Both the automated removal-as-spyware and the self-selecting nature of those who install software that reports on personal web browsing habits raises questions as to whether the resulting data represents a unbiased statistical sample of Internet users.
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| Common Operating systems |
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| Linux • Mac OS • Microsoft Windows • Solaris • UNIX • BSD |
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