BSD UNIX in Mac OS X

by Jordan Hubbard (Apple)

Wednesday 3 Nov 2004, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

IT Auditorium (CERN)

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The most widely distributed UNIX-based operating system, Mac OS X offers a unique combination of technical elements to the discerning geek, such as the fine-grained multithreading of the Mach 3.0 kernel, tight hardware integration and SMP-safe drivers, as well as zero configuration networking.

Mac OS X integrates features from state-of-the-art FreeBSD 5 into Darwin - the Open Source, UNIX-based foundation of Mac OS X - to provide enhanced performance, compatibility and usability.

Jordan Hubbard will present:

• its UNIX lineage and primary reference code bases,
• challenges of marrying UNIX with an ease-of-use doctrine,
• Enterprise versus Desktop challenges,
• what Apple has done so far in the UNIX arena,
• what Apple plans to do in the future and why.

About the speaker:

Jordan Hubbard, the manager of BSD Technologies for Apple, keeps a tight lid over the chaos that could be Darwin (the UNIX-based core of the Mac OS X). Before arriving at Apple, he was the Principal Technologist for Wind River Systems and was responsible for the FreeBSD CD-ROM product line. Jordan co-founded and ran the FreeBSD project and still contributes to the Open Source community. He's held various engineering and management positions in the U.S. and Europe, having begun his career working as a teen on minicomputers back in the 1970's.

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Organiser(s): Julian Blake / IT Department
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