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

[joshua d boyd]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:31:48PM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> They ported it. It's FreeBSD under the hood.
> 
> (What little I saw of the original NextStep convinced me that it
> was the ugliest BSD ever shipped. /etc /usr/etc /usr/local/etc
> confusion, things like that. Horrific.)

Yeah, but still, why port it to a new platform when the new platform also
then needs to be ported.  I mean, come on.  How hard can it be to say
everything goes in /etc, then do
ln -s /etc /usr/etc
ln -s /etc /usr/local/etc
for backwards compatibility with existing programs?  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd