From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 04:14:46 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 337AA16A4A7 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:14:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wbs@infowest.com) Received: from mail.scinternet.net (mail.scinternet.net [65.100.231.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E151343D55 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:14:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wbs@infowest.com) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.scinternet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id DEBCFAF566B; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:14:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (qwest-cc-ip47.scinternet.net [63.226.127.47]) by mail.scinternet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E10AAF5674; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:14:41 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <454EB6D6.3030807@infowest.com> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:15:18 -0700 From: Lorin Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lonnie Cumberland References: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> In-Reply-To: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 04:14:46 -0000 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" > >