Women in Technology

Article:		Getting Your Feet Wet With Aqua
Subject:		Aqua Brings a Unix GUI to the Desktop
Date:		2001-04-20 22:29:06
From:		derrick
Suddenly, Apple has become a prime distributor of BSD on the desktop. Over the coming months we'll hear lots of discussion about the pros and cons of Aqua. That's a good thing. But in the end, I think Apple is going to do what others have had difficulity achieving -- bringing a great desktop GUI to Unix.

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• Aqua Brings a Unix GUI to the Desktop
  2001-05-04 14:00:36  the.blackster [View]
  
  
  I'm a unix admin that acquired a powerbook G4 (my first macintosh) for the specific purpose of running os X when it came out. i hope i'm not an exception - i see tons of potential for os X. and aqua? my god, the most gorgeous interface i've ever used. a power user can get the best of all worlds with os X - aqua for all of its greatness and beauty, XonX for Xwindows support, command line, unix tools... i could just go on and on.
  I too hope that OS X is a big hit - if nothing else, perhaps it'll help focus the limelight a bit back on that upstart linux' older sibling, BSD.

• Aqua Brings a Unix GUI to the Desktop
  2001-04-21 21:57:32  Alan Graham | [View]
  
  
  I also think what Apple has done is to bring an enormous amount of credibility to the platform. You have a $8+ billion company betting the farm on a platform that until now, has remained almost invisible to the end-consumer. Unix has always gained a large amount of respect from the tech sector, but has largely remained anonymous with many business professionals and consumers who wouldn't buy a "non-brand" version of a product. Red Hat...is not a brand 99% of consumers could recognize by name (unless you know them from the class-action lawsuit).
  
  
  
  Most people still think of hardware and the OS as one in the same...a Sony, Gateway, Dell computer will always be a Windows machine, and an Apple will always be an Apple machine. Hard to seperate the OS from the machine...who has ever seen a Unix machine running in Sears or Wal-Mart (not counting the back room servers)?
  
  Apple has given Unix a face and instantly increased it's market share. Unix also just got a big marketing budget and access to grade schools, homes and a wide variety of locations where it was never welcome before. I just hope we see some adoption, or we'll all be using XP.