From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 04:06:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B5A16A416 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:06:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D1343D4C for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:06:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id kA646VEH012414 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 20:06:31 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.101] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id kA646ORn006543 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 20:06:30 -0800 Message-ID: <454EB4B4.6010807@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:06:12 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> In-Reply-To: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.2.1.279297, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2006.11.5.195433 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__C230066_P5 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __LINES_OF_YELLING 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:06:32 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > 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 This has been mentioned quite a few times on this list. The kernel is a Mach kernel, conceptualized by a professor and his research group out at Carnegie Melon some years back (I want to say 7-8 years), and the userland for the OSX operating system is FreeBSD based. Hunting around Wikipedia a bit will most likely facilitate any answers you may have about Mach (and micro) kernels, OSX, and FreeBSD. - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFTrS06CkrZkzMC68RAgZlAJ96y+eYkxMMzGXmz+4Xoag6/WAp2gCfbOPX 04OlE9BZZ+/7T4BEwK5bt0I= =qa+L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----