From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Mar 9 22:21:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC25C37B404; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from builder.freebsdmall.com (builder.freebsdmall.com [65.86.180.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A1143FBD; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:21:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murray@builder.freebsdmall.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by builder.freebsdmall.com (8.12.7/8.11.6) id h2A6L7ov010853; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:21:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murray) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:21:02 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: jared nied , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS X vs. Darwin Message-ID: <20030309222102.G8642@freebsdmall.com> References: <3464BCFE-4FD2-11D7-A6E7-000393BB8320@southampton.liu.edu> <20030308043937.M79531@freebsdmall.com> <20030309220048.GD38342@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030309220048.GD38342@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:30:48AM +1030 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --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