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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:52:59 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a Mac
Message-ID:  <200208202252.59626.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020820234150.009698c0@192.168.0.25>
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On Tuesday 20 August 2002 10:43 pm, Lord Raiden wrote:
>          Actually from what I heard, MacOSX is based on Darwin, not
> Freebsd.  I thought the same initially too.  But then again, I also
> have heard rumors of MS making a windows for PPC and Apple making
> MacOSX available for x86 PC's.  :)  SO who knows.  So many
> contradictory things floating around I'm not entirely sure what to
> believe anymore.  :)

The userland stuff in Darwin and MacOS X were picked up from FreeBSD 
circa 3.4 or 3.5. MacOS X 10.2 "Jaguar" (due on shelves this coming 
Saturday but already installed on new machines at your Apple Store) is 
said to be sync'ed with a newer 4.x FreeBSD. Is very similar otherwise, 
even includes ipfw. Jaguar has Kame IPsec.

If there is any feature I'd like for FreeBSD to have is Apple's Aqua. 
While there is an x86 Darwin, I haven't looked closely enough to 
understand "why".

MacOS X 10.1.5 lacks some refinements found in FreeBSD. Consuming 5% CPU 
just to run top(1) is excessive.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.


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