From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 01:23:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8339D16A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 01:23:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mps2.plala.or.jp (c145240.vh.plala.or.jp [210.150.145.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F6243D55 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 01:23:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp) Received: from msvc2.plala.or.jp ([172.23.8.210]) by mps2.plala.or.jp with SMTP id <20040702012222.JWZI1281.mps2.plala.or.jp@msvc2.plala.or.jp> for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:22:22 +0900 Received: ( 15991 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2004 10:22:22 +0900 X-SVCK: Received: from unknown (HELO mpb1.plala.or.jp) (172.23.8.16) by msvc2 with SMTP; 2 Jul 2004 10:22:21 +0900 Received: from trio.plala.or.jp ([219.25.148.126]) by mpb1.plala.or.jp with ESMTP id <20040702012221.TBFY19716.mpb1.plala.or.jp@trio.plala.or.jp>; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:22:21 +0900 Message-ID: <40E4BA4E.4060007@trio.plala.or.jp> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:28:46 +0900 From: Eitarou Kamo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; ja-JP; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Walker , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.8.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD and MacOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:23:55 -0000 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 -- *********************** Eitarou Kamo Tel. +81 75 7035997 Fax +81 75 7035997 VoIP 050 10585997(domestic only) e-mail e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp For business: Feel free to mail me(above), please. Donation http://www.PayPal.Com GPG FingerPrint: 032D FDF9 D27B 23F7 9A81 BF4C 626C FBAA BC3A 9895 ************************************************************************