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“Operating systems by current version” Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6

  • @grueEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    Mac OS is actually at version 23 (they restarted the count at 10).

    • gregorumEnglish
      3•10 months ago

      technically, Darwin, the microkernel, is at 23.2.0, but it was based on the Mach microkernel from NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (which is part of why it stared at 10)

      the latest release of macOS is 14.2.1

      • @grueEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        I wasn’t trying to get into the weeds about actual kernel version numbers; I was just saying they made classic Mac OS from versions 1-9 and OS X from versions 1-14, and 9 + 14 = 23.

        • gregorumEnglish
          1•10 months ago

          right, but the OS version number is 14.2.1. it’s the microkernel that’s 23.2.0

          • @grueEnglish
            0•10 months ago

            The OS version number is really 10.14.2.1, though.

            • gregorumEnglish
              2•10 months ago

              wrong. Mac OS X ended with Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina) in 2018. macOS Big Sur, macOS 11, was the first in a new generation of macOS that succeeded macOS X and included significant architectural changes to the platform.

              the current version is macOS 14.2.1 (Sonoma)

              • @grueEnglish
                2•10 months ago

                I stand corrected. I gotta be honest: I used to daily-drive OS X up until about a decade ago, but I haven’t paid much attention to it since then.