Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:30:48 +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: <20030309220048.GD38342@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030308043937.M79531@freebsdmall.com> References: <3464BCFE-4FD2-11D7-A6E7-000393BB8320@southampton.liu.edu> <20030308043937.M79531@freebsdmall.com>
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--BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 8 March 2003 at 4:39:37 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:50:27AM -0500, jared nied wrote: >> You say in 'Explaining BSD' that OS X is a closed-source BSD, with only >> the kernel open-sourced. Darwin is an entirely functional BSD OS for >> x86 and PPCs > .. > > How about this diff? Greg? 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. Greg > Index: article.sgml > =================================================================== > RCS file: /a/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml,v > retrieving revision 1.6 > diff -u -r1.6 article.sgml > --- article.sgml 23 Oct 2001 21:31:18 -0000 1.6 > +++ article.sgml 8 Mar 2003 12:38:50 -0000 > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -<!-- $FreeBSD$ --> > +<!-- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml,v 1.6 2001/10/23 21:31:18 murray Exp $ --> > <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project --> > > <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN" [ > @@ -437,9 +437,15 @@ > <para><ulink url="http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/">Mac OS > X</ulink> is the latest version of the operating system for > <ulink url="http://www.apple.com/">Apple Computer Inc.'s</ulink> > - Macintosh line. Unlike the rest of the operating system, the > - kernel is open source. As part of this development, key Apple > - developers have commit access to the FreeBSD source tree.</para> > + Macintosh line. The BSD Unix core of this operating > + system, <ulink > + url="http://developer.apple.com/darwin/">Darwin</ulink>, > + is available as a fully functional open source operating > + system for x86 and PPC computers. The Aqua/Quartz > + graphics system and many other proprietary aspects of > + MacOS X remain closed-source, however. Several Darwin > + developers are also FreeBSD committers, and > + vice-versa.</para> > </listitem> > </itemizedlist> > </sect2> > -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+a7mQIubykFB6QiMRArU+AJ9eQ7w8q/vuwsRNYtZPlJG+hC46IQCfQy6j UoeJOR6d+e5niZ2nZudtY18= =tGHL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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