Derek Bodner’s Blog

This is old news, but it just made the rounds to osnews/slashdot, so I just saw it for the first time. MaxOSX 10.5 has been approved by the Open Group, placing it with Sun, IBM and HP as the only OS’s obtaining UNIX 03 certification. Quite shocked to see OSX get in, as the entrance seems to be System V-heavy. Could this possibly lead to more BSD’s getting certified? Most likely not, as there is some pretty steep certification costs. Probably has more effect on Apple trying to get more of a share in the Workstation/Server markets where app portability is a bigger concern, but interesting nonetheless.

As asked by pzs on /.:

Does this mean that turtle neck wearing goatie bearded design weenies will start calling themselves Unix geeks?

Does this mean that XNU now stands for X is now UNIX?