The new OS also features improvements under the hood designed to bolster the OS' Unix underpinnings and allow Mac OS X systems to fit in better on Windows-dominated corporate networks. Another new feature in Panther will automatically synchronise...
With the release of Mac OS X 10.2 comes an update to Darwin, the open source core that sits at the heart of Mac OS X. It has also pledged to add the technology by early next year to iTunes, which will allow Mac owners to stream music files stored...
According to the first advisory, some applications are installed on Mac OS X systems with insecure file permissions, so "many of the files and directories that compose various applications are globally writable".
This time the flaw is not in Apple code but in the VLC Media Player, an open source program available for Mac OS X and Windows. The vulnerability affects QuickTime 7.1.3, the latest version of the media player software released in September, on...
The advisories from Sun, Secunia and Pynnonen do not address whether the problem could affect Apple's Mac OS X operating system, which is based on a Unix-like core of code, similar to Linux. The Sun representative said that the Mac issue is being...
Apple is being sued by The Open Group - a San Francisco company that claims ownership of the Unix trademark - for using the term Unix in conjunction with its Mac OS X operating system without a licence.
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