![]() While Ubuntu maintains certain factors that are similar to Windows, such as the default taskbar (that is typically replaced anyhow.)įrom a usability respect, both Operating Systems are nearly equal.Īs twxwikinger said, the major difference between Mac OS X and Ubuntu would have to be that Mac OS X is closed source, as he explained.Įssentially, Ubuntu is free due to it's Open Source licensing, Mac OS X due to being closed source, isn't.īeyond that, Mac OS X and Ubuntu are cousins, Mac OS X being based off of FreeBSD/BSD, and Ubuntu being Linux based, which are two separate branches off of UNIX. Because of this reason, it is not possible to port those applications to run on Linux without being the copyright owner of those applications and libraries.įrom using all 3 major Operating Systems (considering Ubuntu as the third, as the representative of Linux,) I can tell you that Ubuntu is very similar to Mac OS X in simplicity, also I have noticed window dialogs tend to be remarkably similar to that of which we see in Ubuntu. ![]() This means that these systems are similar, but not binary compatible.įurthermore, Mac OS has lots of applications that are not open source and are build on libraries that are not open source. Mac OS is based on a BSD code base, while Linux is an independent development of a unix-like system.
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