From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Mar 9 13:59:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73BA37B401; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:59:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49CE43FBD; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:59:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E073F51A4E; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:30:48 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:30:48 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Murray Stokely Cc: jared nied , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS X vs. Darwin Message-ID: <20030309220048.GD38342@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3464BCFE-4FD2-11D7-A6E7-000393BB8320@southampton.liu.edu> <20030308043937.M79531@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030308043937.M79531@freebsdmall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --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 @@ > - > + > > > @@ -437,9 +437,15 @@ > Mac OS > X is the latest version of the operating system for > Apple Computer Inc.'s > - 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. > + Macintosh line. The BSD Unix core of this operating > + system, + url="http://developer.apple.com/darwin/">Darwin, > + 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. > > > > -- 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