[Macpartners] Mac OS X workshop: UNIX Inside, Mac Outside, September 22, 3-5 pm N42 Demo Center

[Albert Willis]

Steve Hayman gave this presentation at the Media Lab last year, where 
it was very well received. He's doing it again in the N42 Demo Center 
on Monday, September 22, 3-5 pm. Steve is a great presenter and is very 
knowledgeable about Mac OS X--definitely worthwhile.

   -- Al

UNIX Inside, Mac Outside

Steve Hayman, National Consulting Engineer for Apple Education, will 
discuss and demonstrate the latest Unix features of Mac OS X, including 
Darwin, its FreeBSD-based Unix core; Apple's new implementation of X 
Windows, and Apple's free developer tools.  We'll look at scripting on 
Mac OS X and how you might use AppleScript Studio to combine the 
wonderful GUI of Mac OS X with the power of core Unix command-line 
tools.  Plus we'll talk about what's coming in the upcoming Panther 
release of Mac OS X.

The details:
LIKE YOU, THE MAC RUNS UNIX.

Because colleges and universities have decades of UNIX experience and a 
huge
installed base of UNIX Systems, Mac OS X is a natural fit.

In addition to its powerful UNIX foundation,  Mac OS X was designed 
with the
needs of programmers in mind.  Darwin, its Open Source core, is based 
on BSD
4.4 and the Mach 3.0 microkernel, making Mac OS X an ideal development
environment AND the ideal training ground for future software engineers.

Many popular science and technical UNIX applications have already been
ported to Mac OS X, and it's easy to port your own.  Mac OS X features
built-in support for Java 2 and also runs UNIX applications alongside
off-the-shelf productivity applications like Microsoft Office.  That 
means
users DON'T have to switch between two machines or reboot in a different
operating system.

ALL OF THE POWER IN A UNIX OS,
WITH NONE OF THE HASSLE.  JOIN US.

PC and Mac users alike are invited to attend this event.  Steve Hayman,
Apple Consulting Engineer for Higher Education, leads a discussion 
designed
for UNIX-savvy users, administrators and developers, as well as systems 
and
network administrators.  Participants will learn:

•  How the BSD foundation of Mac OS X delivers a new world of UNIX tools
to the Macintosh platform.

•  How Apple's object-oriented developer tools, including Project
Builder, Interface Builder and AppleScript Studio, enable developers to
rapidly build applications.

•  The pathways developers can take to port UNIX applications to the Mac
platform.  And the ease of porting when WHAT you need may have already 
been
ported for you.

•  How Mac OS X seamlessly fits into a heterogenous network of Mac, 
Windows,
Linux and UNIX machines.

Participants will also learn more about running X Windows applications 
on
Mac OS X.  We'll demonstrate X Darwin (X Free86), Fink for software
installation and Orobor for Aqua-compatible X Windows windows 
management.
For perhaps the first time, you'll imagine X applications on the go 
from an
Apple PowerBook G4 or iBook.


---
Albert Willis
Macintosh Platform Coordinator
Software Release Team
MIT Information Systems