Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Jun 2008 00:34 UTC
Although Apple is marketing Mac OS X Snow Leopard as an operating system update with "no new features," under the hood improvements will actually translate into a slew of new enhancements, five of which are described herein.
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The size of an application in MacOS X paints a different picture than in other operating systems. While Pidgin weighs in at 2MB it relies on other libraries and packages installed on your machine. iChat on the other hand includes all needed files included the code to run on both PowerPC and Intel as well as about 18 language packs.
That's the difference between apps on the Mac and elsewhere. For the most part, if made correctly, apps on the mac are just one icon that is really a package of all needed files. Linux you have the binary and the libraries and packages in multiple folders within your root drive.
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