Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 16:08:15 -0600 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: Nick Popoff <mouse@bloodletting.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Apple Message-ID: <373F41CF.850A8FCF@thuntek.net> References: <000101be9fe0$52882f60$0d42060a@rust.bloodletting.com>
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Nick Popoff wrote: > > I've been hearing very interesting rumors from a friend of mine who > went to Apple's WWDC conference last week. According to him, Apple > is moving away from the mishmash of Unix sources they were using to > build their next generation OS in favor of using FreeBSD for everything. > He also heard that they were working on some cool new kernel features > to make things more dynamic, which they intend to give back to the project. > > Has anyone else heard things to this effect? > Yes. Fred Sanchez just publicly (at that conference) Apple's Darwin kernel to the FreeBSD source tree. He has been working with me off the list on getting a group press announcement out. He's also going to publicly acknowledge the Open Source benefits at FreeNIX next month. He's been very open about the BSD connection and there's a web page acknowledgement of their BSD heritage already. He hasn't said they're dropping the NetBSD or MACH connections, though, quite the contrary. -- Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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