Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:29:24 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: jared nied <jnied@southampton.liu.edu>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS X vs. Darwin Message-ID: <20030311005924.GD45912@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030309222102.G8642@freebsdmall.com> References: <3464BCFE-4FD2-11D7-A6E7-000393BB8320@southampton.liu.edu> <20030308043937.M79531@freebsdmall.com> <20030309220048.GD38342@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030309222102.G8642@freebsdmall.com>
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--d01dLTUuW90fS44H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 9 March 2003 at 22:21:02 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:30:48AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> Hmm. I'll leave it for others to decide, but my understanding is that >> Darwin and the lower levels of Mac OS X are *not* identical, that you >> can't replace one with the other for example. Is this correct? If >> so, the text below as it stands is incorrect. > > The proposed change doesn't claim that they are identical. It > sounds like you are objecting to this sentence : > > "The BSD Unix core of this operating system, Darwin, is available as a > fully functional open source operating system for x86 and PPC > computers." > > The next sentence goes on to clarify that much of the Mac OS X code > is closed source and, implicitly, not in Darwin and not > interchangeable. > > "The Aqua/Quartz graphics system and many other proprietary aspects of > Mac OS X remain closed-source, however." > > I think this is a pretty clear and succinct way to state the > relationship between Darwin and Mac OS X. If you can think of a > better way, please commit it. In any case, we've cleared up the major > inaccuracy which was claiming that Darwin is just the kernel (XNU). Yes, this looks OK. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --d01dLTUuW90fS44H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+bTTsIubykFB6QiMRAjIaAJ0XRD8AQizENDiR3PISAvdNNVqu6ACeKVKM pYi7Y2/bnlQB0jHAyCrs5j4= =Wd1f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d01dLTUuW90fS44H-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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