Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:28:46 +0900 From: Eitarou Kamo <e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp> To: Justin Walker <justin@mac.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and MacOS Message-ID: <40E4BA4E.4060007@trio.plala.or.jp> In-Reply-To: <F694F50C-CB94-11D8-AFC7-00306544D642@mac.com> References: <40E1CAAD.3000303@minimum.se> <40E1CF00.2090601@netli.com> <1088557263.3528.102.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com> <72A1AE29-CA60-11D8-988E-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <9B616D82-CB28-11D8-9145-000D9335C6A0@yahoo.com.au> <40E40385.9030401@trio.plala.or.jp> <F694F50C-CB94-11D8-AFC7-00306544D642@mac.com>
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HI Justin,
Justin Walker wrote:
>
> On Jul 1, 2004, at 5:28, Eitarou Kamo wrote:
>
>>
>
> Darwin, as the underpinnings for Mac OS X, is entirely open source, in
> the sense that you can build a running Darwin system from the
> open-source code available from Apple. You can't completely replace
> corresponding components in Mac OS X with code from the Darwin code
> base and have a working system (some frameworks/libraries are only
> partially open source).
>
> Some components of the kernel are not open-source, but they are not
> needed to build a Darwin system, or to build a kernel that can replace
> the one you have on a running Mac OS X system. These components are
> loadable kernel modules, and as such, will load into a rebuilt kernel
> of the same version level.
>
> Hope that isn't too confusing.
>
It may be OK, I guess. I didn't know Darwin well so far. and
I'm not going to port or derive Darwin to other systems. But
I'm interested in a bit.
Eitarou
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