[geeks] T H E??b r i Q

joshua d boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Jul 18 21:04:22 CDT 2001


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 06:49:05PM -0700, Ron Rosson wrote:
> * Bill Bradford (mrbill at mrbill.net) [010718 18:46]:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:45:58PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > You mean they would if the operating system usually used on them wasn't
> > > written by deformed crack monkeys.
> > > Love AAPL, hate Mac OS.
> > 
> > have you looked at OS X lately?  ITS UNIX.
> > 
> 
> Based on FreeBSD 3.x with FreeBSD's 3.x vulnerabilities and expoits.
> There was some scary talks at defcon this year about OS X.

Err, OS X isn't based on FreeBSD.  OS X, might share a little code with
FreeBSD, but OS X's history goes back a lot further than FreeBSD's
does.  OS X is from the 80s, and FreeBSD didn't come out till the early
90s.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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