Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:21:01 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 248, Issue 1 Message-ID: <20080729052101.GB1995@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> In-Reply-To: <02c801c8f0dc$16caf410$0100010a@oemspc03> References: <20080728120008.0BBF710656C5@hub.freebsd.org> <02c801c8f0dc$16caf410$0100010a@oemspc03>
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:02:23PM +0200, Salvatore Albanese wrote: > We must remind that apple experimented with UNIX many years ago and now use > the Darwin distro for MAC OS X. This is a big statement! Imagine a BSD > distro that is so easy even windows users find it confortable. 20% of the > windows market moved to MAC OX S in that last 18 months. While I agree that decent, and enthusiastic (but not zealot) advocacy is a good thing, I think it is very important to say the truth. It is just too frequently that I here statements that essentially say: "MacOS X is just FreeBSD with an Apple GUI on it". That's just not true. The Darwin kernel is a Mach kernel (something that the BSDs do not have and did not have with the exception of the failed attempt xMach) which is very different from the BSD kernel. Darwin only implements some (many) APIs and borrows some code from the BSDs (like the network code, but boy, there is hardly an OS that does not have BSD-derived TCP/IP code somewhere in it) and contains userland applications that were ported from the BSDs. But that does not make it a BSD system. Otherwise, it would be truly difficult to explain why it took so long for FreeBSD to grow suport for the PPC arch, when Darwin was already out there :-) If you want to brag about FreeBSD technology used in a mainstream product, then by all means mention Firefox 3, because that is already quite impressive. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Budapest Hungary
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