From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 26 19:23:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E4FD37B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 19:23:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4R2KHk24121; Sat, 26 May 2001 22:20:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B1064D1.C1EE3C@iowna.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:22:09 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: a brody Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is Mac OS X in your ports page? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG a brody wrote: > > Dear FreeBSD, > Technically isn't Mac OS X a PowerPC port of FreeBSD? > I would think it belongs here: I think that if you check your sources, you'll find that OSX isn't quite "a port of FreeBSD" First off, it doesn't even use the FreeBSD kernel, it uses Mach (unless I'm misinformed). And while it has a lot of code from the FreeBSD project in it, it really is its own animal. I think some of the more serious hackers on the FreeBSD project (as well as some of those involved with Darwin) could give you a plethora of technical reasons why OSX is not FreeBSD. Mainly, however, would be that it's not supported and developed by the FreeBSD project, so it really doesn't have any place on the web page. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message