[geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 02:21:31 (-0500), Dave McGuire wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...
>
> On February 19, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > > Maybe I am waaaay off base here but isn't OS X based on FreeBSD? If that is the
> > > case then the rest should be trivial right?
> > 
> > Nope.
> > 
> > Good ol' NeXTStep + some odds & ends from FreeBSD (ie FreeBSD's ipfw) +
> > (iirc) NetBSD userland + the "Aqua" GUI.
> 
>   Would the FreeBSD kernel be considered an "odd", or an "end"?

Actually it would be pretty odd to find the FreeBSD kernel in there....

Yes, there are parts of the FreeBSD kernel (filesystem, etc.), and if
I'm not mistaken some parts of the NetBSD kernel too (networking?), but
the core of the kernel is Mach, through and through....

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