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OPENSTEP 4.2 Screenshots

ianduniandun
edited February 2013 in Software
I took the time to download and setup OPENSTEP 4.2 from your downloads with the help of this guide. I used VirtualBox. I also used this webpage. If someone wants me to, I can compile the information included in these two pages and use them for a guide of my own on WinWorld. I took some screenshots, so here we go!

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The OPENSTEP 4.2 Login Screen

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The OPENSTEP 4.2 File Manager

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The OPENSTEP 4.2 Edit Application

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Chess on OPENSTEP 4.2 (The computer is black)

Now for some developer tools...

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Interface Builder

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Project Builder

I am quite delighted with OPENSTEP 4.2. The only thing I don't like is that they chose Objective C as the programming language for developers. But I can live, I suppose. Let me know what you think and let me know if I should do an installation tutorial for OPENSTEP 4.2 on VirtualBox (using the poll above).

Comments

  • DeepFriedCookiesDeepFriedCookies
    That is so cool. How similar is it to OS X? I'm aware that they both use the .app format for applications, do they also share things like Cocoa?
  • ianduniandun
    The OpenStep (different from OPENSTEP) apis are the foundation for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Mac OSX is also based on the mach kernel, which was also used by OPENSTEP.
  • DeepFriedCookiesDeepFriedCookies
    Ah. That's so cool to see in action. I knew about Mach kernel already, but how many differences are there? Like, kernel wise? Does OPENSTEP still use kexts as kernel modules, like Mac OS X?
  • nighticenightice
    The older mach-hybrid kernel is interesting because it apparently made extensive use of Objective-C. I recall seeing that in the Rhapsody developer guide somewhere. Apple ripped that out and implemented a subset of C++ and now we have IOKit et al. In general there are more similarities than differences, check out the Mac OS X Internals book and compare it to an OpenStep system.
  • ianduniandun
    The system itself is quite fast. The only thing that slows down start-up time is when the OS must check the disk. There is no stopping the OS and it takes a long time (at least compared to Ubuntu when it checks the disk).
  • DeepFriedCookiesDeepFriedCookies
    That sounds like a holdout from classic Unix and BSD. Pretty sure early OS X did that as well.
  • bittinbittin
    Openstep is cool tried to run Gnustep: http://www.gnustep.org/ on my eMac with Debian but it worked shitty with new software :(
  • gdea73gdea73
    I was trying to get WIndow Maker working well enough for daily use, but I ran into errors when trying to compile certain applets to manage the network and audio, etc.

    I'll give OPENSTEP a try though, because I really like the look and feel of the interface here. How stable is it as a regular OS?
  • ianduniandun
    It works quite well, it never crashed on me. The only problem you'll have is finding software for it! :)
    As for Windows Maker, if you're using Ubuntu you can get binaries of Window Maker by following these instructions: http://www.howtogeek.com/109686/how-to- ... on-ubuntu/
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