Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:15:18 -0700 From: Lorin Lund <wbs@infowest.com> To: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD? Message-ID: <454EB6D6.3030807@infowest.com> In-Reply-To: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> References: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com>
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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? I'm pretty sure that Darwin does not include the MAC gui. I believe that the guis used on Darwin are basically the same as found on *BSD and Linux - KDE, Gnome, ... > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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