From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 23:31:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A1416A41F for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:31:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beyert@cs.ucr.edu) Received: from sentinel.ucr.edu (sentinel.ucr.edu [138.23.226.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACCC43D45 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:31:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beyert@cs.ucr.edu) Received: from aeonserv.aeonnet (66-215-246-57.dhcp.rvsd.ca.charter.com [66.215.246.57]) by sentinel.ucr.edu (MOS 3.5.9-GR) with ESMTP id DMA02752 (AUTH tbeye001); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:31:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:32:28 -0800 Message-ID: <877jbkyqyb.wl%beyert@cs.ucr.edu> From: Timothy Beyer To: Ben Kaduk In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0511062052j5caecf3fj5cb5f0aa5af7693c@mail.gmail.com> References: <47d0403c0511062052j5caecf3fj5cb5f0aa5af7693c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta23) (daikon) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Junkmail-Status: score=17/65, host=sentinel.ucr.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is darwin powered by freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:31:59 -0000 At Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:52:10 -0600, Ben Kaduk wrote: > lying around. I know that the darwin part of os X is based on FreeBSD, but > is it close enough > to justify putting "powered by FreeBSD" stickers on it? What do you all > think? > > Ben Kaduk Depends, but I think it's a grey area, but I think that "powered by *BSD" rather than "FreeBSD" would be more accurate. The kernel isn't the FreeBSD kernel. It's darwin. The userland is mostly the same as FreeBSD, with some GNU tools and some tools from other BSDs. (I think) I guess it is BSD in the sense that GNU/Linux is GNU. --Tim