“Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynotes are always Major Events in which
lots of new stuff gets announced, but they rarely carry much news
of unusual interest to folks on the Linux side of the OS tracks.
True, Apple has been talking up UNIX and open source for several
years now, and its OS X-based laptops are popular Type O devices in
UNIX-y environments, including plenty of Linux shops and
households. But hardly anybody expected Jobs to deliver any
open-source surprises–least of all a new application based on a
code developed by and for the Linux community…“There had been rumors that Apple would replace Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer as the default browser in the OS X ‘dock’. While
standing in line with other ‘media’ waiting to be herded into our
special section in the keynote theater, I talked with some
old-timers who rolled their eyes remembering Apple’s last browser
effort, the late Cyberdog. The default assumption was that Apple
would add to the growing list of browsers based on Mozilla’s Gecko
engine, perhaps coming out with its own branded version of
Chimera.“But that didn’t happen. Instead Apple did something far more
radical: They based their new browser on KHTML, from KDE…”
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