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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:44:28 -0500
From:      kitsune <kitsune@gmx.co.uk>
To:        "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sorry.
Message-ID:  <20030917114428.3dc4946e.kitsune@gmx.co.uk>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:21:38 -0400
"Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert2@mindspring.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:56 AM
> 
> >twig les wrote:
> >> I thought FreeBSD *did* have a client setup called Darwin. ;-)
> >
> >FWIW:
> >
> >	FreeBSD 4.x:	~2M lines of code (including kernel modules)
> >	MacOS X:	~6M lines of code (not including kexts)
> >
> >It takes a lot of work to make a usable desktop OS.
> 
> But, isn't the majority of the additional lines dealing with the fancy
> graphics stuff, what is it called cocoa/liguid/carbon or what ever?

Yeah, but in this case that is the job of X and the toolkits and/or WMs that
uses X.



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