Posted by Ben C on 01/22/07 10:27

On 2007-01-22, Toby Inkster <usenet200701@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> wayne wrote:
>> dorayme wrote:
>>>> dorayme wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Yes, open a .jpg and Get Info (command i) and choose "open with"
>>>>> and then "change all"
>>>
>>> er... not really. I really thought I was on a Mac group in my
>>> rush, this is such a typical question I did not notice other
>>> indicators clearly saying it was for win98. Sorry OP.
>>
>> I believe MAC uses a version of UNIX
>
> Yes, it uses the Darwin kernel, which is a port of FreeBSD to run on top
> of the Mach microkernel. FreeBSD is a flavour UNIX[tm].
>
>> and Lionux has the same command structure (mostly) so your answer is
>> correct there as well!
>
> No, it's not at all correct. Although Mac systems run on a variant of
> UNIX, the graphical interface layed on top is entirely proprietary to Mac
> OS X, and is not available on other versions of UNIX.
>
> Not all UNIX systems have a graphical interface (heck, a UNIX system
> doesn't *need* to have *any* interface! Not even a command line
> interface!) and those that do, usually use X11.

And on top of X11 they run something like Gnome or KDE. It's those
environments that define most of the "look and feel", including things
like jpeg preview behaviour.

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