Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:35:39 -0500 From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD? Message-ID: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com>
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Greetings All, Being a long time Linux user and now looking into moving over to FreeBSD, I decided to so some research on the web to try and get a better idea as to the strengths and weaknesses as compared to other operating systems like Linux (Fedora, Gentoo, etc..), OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Opensolaris. From what I have found, FreeBSD seems to be at the very top in almost every way. In my Internet travels, I came across a site that has this MAC OS X ( which I guess is called Darwin?) at: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html and have noticed that they seem to have built the MAC OS X from a core of FreeBSD 5.x. Do I read this correctly? Also, what are the differences between MAC OS X and Darwin? The reason that I ask all of this stuff is because if we were going to take a distro to start building from as a base for a project that we are working on then would it make more sense to take the latest FreeBSD 6.1 or the MAC OS X (Darwin) as the base since there has been a great amount of work on both distros and they are also both BSD based? I guess that I am still a little confused on some of these things and hope that some one can help to answer some of my newbie questions. Thanks and have a good day, Lonnie T. Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated Tel: 866-425-7010 Email: Lonnie@outstep.com Lonnie_Cumberland@yahoo.com Recommended sites: http://www.peoplesquest.com
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