Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 04:39:37 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> To: jared nied <jnied@southampton.liu.edu> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS X vs. Darwin Message-ID: <20030308043937.M79531@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <3464BCFE-4FD2-11D7-A6E7-000393BB8320@southampton.liu.edu>; from jnied@southampton.liu.edu on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:50:27AM -0500 References: <3464BCFE-4FD2-11D7-A6E7-000393BB8320@southampton.liu.edu>
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--xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:50:27AM -0500, jared nied wrote: > You say in 'Explaining BSD' that OS X is a closed-source BSD, with only= =20 > the kernel open-sourced. Darwin is an entirely functional BSD OS for=20 > x86 and PPCs=20 =2E. How about this diff? Greg? Index: article.sgml =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D RCS file: /a/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 article.sgml --- article.sgml 23 Oct 2001 21:31:18 -0000 1.6 +++ article.sgml 8 Mar 2003 12:38:50 -0000 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $FreeBSD$ --> +<!-- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml,v = 1.6 2001/10/23 21:31:18 murray Exp $ --> <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project --> =20 <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN= " [ @@ -437,9 +437,15 @@ <para><ulink url=3D"http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/">Mac OS X</ulink> is the latest version of the operating system for <ulink url=3D"http://www.apple.com/">Apple Computer Inc.'s</ulink> - Macintosh line. Unlike the rest of the operating system, the - kernel is open source. As part of this development, key Apple - developers have commit access to the FreeBSD source tree.</para> + Macintosh line. The BSD Unix core of this operating + system, <ulink + url=3D"http://developer.apple.com/darwin/">Darwin</ulink>, + is available as a fully functional open source operating + system for x86 and PPC computers. The Aqua/Quartz + graphics system and many other proprietary aspects of + MacOS X remain closed-source, however. Several Darwin + developers are also FreeBSD committers, and + vice-versa.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect2> --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE+aeSJtNcQog5FH30RAtRCAKCi/97fNpOeYsbo7BlsT80Ikmn/tQCfZlBf GZ/2IW2ShbckjYIeZrI4SM0= =Fa0G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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