Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:21:02 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: jared nied <jnied@southampton.liu.edu>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS X vs. Darwin Message-ID: <20030309222102.G8642@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20030309220048.GD38342@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:30:48AM %2B1030 References: <3464BCFE-4FD2-11D7-A6E7-000393BB8320@southampton.liu.edu> <20030308043937.M79531@freebsdmall.com> <20030309220048.GD38342@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:30:48AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Hmm. I'll leave it for others to decide, but my understanding is that > Darwin and the lower levels of Mac OS X are *not* identical, that you > can't replace one with the other for example. Is this correct? If > so, the text below as it stands is incorrect. The proposed change doesn't claim that they are identical. It sounds like you are objecting to this sentence : "The BSD Unix core of this operating system, Darwin, is available as a fully functional open source operating system for x86 and PPC computers." The next sentence goes on to clarify that much of the Mac OS X code is closed source and, implicitly, not in Darwin and not interchangeable. "The Aqua/Quartz graphics system and many other proprietary aspects of Mac OS X remain closed-source, however." I think this is a pretty clear and succinct way to state the relationship between Darwin and Mac OS X. If you can think of a better way, please commit it. In any case, we've cleared up the major inaccuracy which was claiming that Darwin is just the kernel (XNU). - Murray --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE+bC7OtNcQog5FH30RAq2oAJ0e+wo2oQaCT0WmdRCOWN8KMAZbQwCgoC+g kQnW/ypxw7oIlmUGkibPh5Q= =pR6X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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