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Spotlight was on Linux (Beagle). Time Machine's just incremental versioned backup (borrows some licensed technology from Sun); such already existed, even on Macs. Very nice interface though, and excellent usability (beats the heck out of random scripts). Grand Central Dispatch is "yet another...

I see a lot of polish, yes, and progress (compared to, say, OS 7 and earlier), but could you list the innovations completely unique to OSX? (Not bashing, interested. I'm a long term Mac user.)

The OSX GUI really is just a polished-up version of a 90's GUI (the NeXtStep GUI).

OSX is still a nice OS though. Quite like it.

I was trying to think of things that were more visible or directly used by typical end users (printing, browsers, network shares and the like). Much of what's on that list are not directly used by end users even though many are of course essential to the system. Many are tools and libraries...

Quickly, off the top of my head: Multiple virtual desktops, as mentioned above, were on Linux before appearing on OSX (as Spaces). WebKit (the core of the Safari web browser). CUPS (the printing system). And yes, Samba too.

True, in a sense. Though, oddly enough, the NeXtStep look was running on Linux well before it came to the Mac: Afterstep. Even the good (?) old Mail.app was there. And the project to bring NeXtStep to Linux began before OSX/NeXtStep came to the Mac as well (the project is alive and (sort of)...

http://toastytech.com/guis/ Good stuff for those interested in this sort of thing: Personal computer graphical user interfaces - Timelines & pics. The 1984 shows a Mac, Windows, and X (Unix) interfaces.

Don't know if "copied" is the right word, and it's a Unixy or X thing rather than a Linux thing per se, but the multiple virtual desktops came late to OSX. And, FWIW, under the hood, OSX relies on a slew of open source tools, many of which owe much of their development to Linux-based developers...

... if you wanna be happy for the rest of your life

China's still working on getting Mandarin fluency past 60%. "A government survey in the mid 2000s found that only 53 percent of the population “can communicate in Putinghua” [Putonghua] and television broadcast continue to have subtitles to help people overcome misunderstandings of the...

On Ubuntu, look for youtube-dl in Add/Remove Programs (or install it from the command line: sudo apt-get install youtube-dl). Then youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar to download your video.

Ubuntu and most other Linux systems will mount it and allow you to use it right out of the box.

Google Apps for Business - Standard Edition. It's free plus about $5/year for the domain name.

That's the default, but changing it to a private feed for friends only is only a click away.