Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:30:35 -0600 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4550B4AB.8040606@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <454F210C.9000602@outstep.com> References: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> <454EB6D6.3030807@infowest.com> <454EBEEC.1060002@u.washington.edu> <454F210C.9000602@outstep.com>
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On 11/06/2006 05:48, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Thanks everyone for the replay to my post as it did finally occur to me > that perhaps this question had been asked on the mailing list, but > unfortunately it occurred to me after I sent it. > > So, basically the Apple team took FreeBSD and the CM micro-kernel, > combined them, made some improvements and added some additional code and > then used it all as the MAC OS X core (without the GUI of course)? A little bit of info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU I'll let others comment on its correctness. > > With this being said, then does anyone have any experience with the > stability and performance? > > My guess is that if it is really based upon FreeBSD then the performance > should be pretty good from my readings about FreeBSD compared to other > operating systems. > > Thanks again to everyone, > Cheers, > Lonnie > > Garrett Cooper wrote: >> -----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----- >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > -- Regards, Eric
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