From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 15:19:46 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 A8C2A16A4C8 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: from mail.outstep.com (D2095.servadmin.com [12.158.188.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCEA4442D for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:02:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: (qmail 11506 invoked by uid 511); 13 Nov 2006 09:03:21 -0600 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by mail.outstep.com (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.87/2106. spamassassin: 3.1.3. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. 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Processed in 0.072545 secs Process 11499) Received: from localhost (HELO mail.outstep.com) (127.0.0.1) by mail.outstep.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2006 09:03:20 -0600 Received: from 129.6.99.176 (SquirrelMail authenticated user lonnie@outstep.com) by mail.outstep.com with HTTP; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:03:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <1648.129.6.99.176.1163430200.squirrel@mail.outstep.com> In-Reply-To: <20061113143818.GA34908@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> <454F210C.9000602@outstep.com> <004001c70706$0d571ec0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <20061113143818.GA34908@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:03:20 -0600 (CST) From: "Lonnie Cumberland" To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lonnie@outstep.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:19:46 -0000 Greetings All, I really appreciate all of the feedback and reply posts regaring my inquiry about Darwin and FreeBSD. I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I think is VERY good and have also recently been able to boot up the OpenDarwin 7.2.1 as well, but never could get the Darwin 8.1 cdrom to install. If I follow these messages correctly then it appears that FreeBSD is just as good as Darwin although I had expected that the inclusion of the CM kernel integrated with the FreeBSD kernel along with various other improvements would have made the Darwin software better. One thing that I can tell at the moment is that the FreeBSD OS seems to have better support for hardware since Darwin (Apple) if very specifically targeted to chosen hardware and also they seem to use these Carbon libraries for getting things to run which I do not kow where to locate more information on them. We were looking for a good OS to build from and now know that it will not be Linux, but on the BSD side of the house as I like what I have seen in both FreeBSD and also what little I have seen in Darwin. I would still like to do some more testing to get a better feel for what Darwin can offer, but the bottom line is that all of these are directly related to FreeBSD and are stable and fast compared to other non-FreeBSD related OS's. Thanks again and have a good day, Lonnie T. Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated Email: Lonnie@outstep.com Lonnie_Cumberland@yahoo.com "Open Source...... opening the doors for the future in the world of today...." On Mon, November 13, 2006 08:38, David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:28:16AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> >> No, they used it all as the Darwin core. Then they took Darwin and >> added their own GUI (used to be called Aqua) and that is MacOSX. > > X11 also comes on the MacOS X DVD, but is not installed by default. > > >> Bear in mind that the MacOS X gui does not translate directly into >> UNIX. For example, you can load MacOS System 7 files with a >> separate resource and data fork onto MacOSX. The MacOS X gui >> handles a lot of this kind of stuff. > > I lost you there. "So what?" The classic Mac file format is more > advanced than a Unix (or Windows) flat file. The MacOS X Unix view of > such files is morphed into a directory of files. The GUI turns such > directories into a single application icon which *can* be opened to > see what is inside but normally a double-click or open launches the > app. > >> Apple also doesen't use the UNIX security model. As near as I can >> tell their core security model is an ACL model not a user/group >> model. Once again this is something that's handled elsewhere. >> > > Don't know how its done underneath but from a shell and ported > applications it looks exactly the same: > > dkelly@dot-matrix {767} uname -a Darwin dot-matrix.local 8.8.0 Darwin > Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep 8 17:18:57 PDT 2006; > root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc > dkelly@dot-matrix {768} id uid=503(dkelly) gid=501(dkelly) > groups=501(dkelly), 81(appserveradm), 79(appserverusr), 80(admin) > dkelly@dot-matrix {769} who am i dkelly ttyp2 Nov 13 08:17 > dkelly@dot-matrix {770} ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x 33 dkelly dkelly 1122 > Nov 1 13:30 . > dkelly@dot-matrix {771} > >> The biggest problem with MacOS X is that a lot of UNIX software >> that runs on FreeBSD and such, is not ported to MacOSX, and it's >> very difficult to compile on MacOSX. > > Really? Good thing I didn't know compiling was difficult. The other > day I wanted a MacOS X version of mkisofs. Copied cdrtools from > /usr/ports/distfiles/ off a FreeBSD machine. Built without a complaint > in moments. Not terribly thrilled with its default install location > of /opt/schily/bin/ but at least its easy to remove. > > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net > ====================================================================== > == > Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. > >