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-----Original Message-----
>From: kitsune [mailto:kitsune@gmx.co.uk]
> >>	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.

So if we combine X with FreeBSD we've got a desktop OS :)



Roderick Person 
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