From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 04:50:10 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 C21A216A58D for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:50:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D96843D58 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:50:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id kA64o9Ri013012 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 20:50:09 -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 kA64o3jB008777 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 20:50:08 -0800 Message-ID: <454EBEEC.1060002@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:49:48 -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> <454EB6D6.3030807@infowest.com> In-Reply-To: <454EB6D6.3030807@infowest.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: 2006.11.5.203932 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__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 04:50:10 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lorin Lund wrote: > 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, ... Darwin is the core to the OS; it doesn't contain a GUI, unless installed from ports. Quartz is the "GUI platform" for OSX. - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFTr7s6CkrZkzMC68RAhAmAJ97ceqgoCvP8vZAh1IFq1qQyt7trgCfXe+w 8SWtLI36Fbx7mFyMGbbs7W8= =EgRZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----