From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 27 10:16:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F2E37B422 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 10:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dleimbac@earthlink.net) Received: from 1Cust4.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net (1Cust4.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net [63.30.107.4]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21119; Sun, 27 May 2001 10:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105271717.KAA21119@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:19:36 CDT From: dave To: a brody , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is Mac OS X in your ports page? Reply-To: dleimbac@earthlink.net X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mac OS X is NOT a port of FreeBSD. Mac OS X is a GUI on Darwin which is a BSD on top of a Mach mircrokernel. Other than the fact that Apple pulled some of Darwin's stuff from the BSD's (freeBSD included) it is not a port of FreeBSD to PPC architecture. Its more a port of Mach to PPC with BSD running on it. Dave On Sat, 26 May 2001, a brody wrote: > Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:00:55 -0400 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > From: a brody > Subject: Where is Mac OS X in your ports page? > > Dear FreeBSD, > Technically isn't Mac OS X a PowerPC port of FreeBSD? > I would think it belongs here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html > > Sincerely, > abrody@smart.net > -- > Check my internet portal of over 1000 links verified monthly, > over 200 Macintosh, and over 200 Cartography, GIS, and Mapping links. > > http://www.index-site.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message