Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:52:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on a G4? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008241351440.7184-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <200008241739.KAA47406@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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yep, I've telnetted to it... they just took the sockets stuff, and I think the tcp/ip stack.. but most of what they took was the userland. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > if you read more closely, you will see that it's the FreeBSD userland it's > > based off of... not the FreeBSD kernel.. the kernel is a mach based > > kernel. > > The kernel is somewhat Mach based. It uses some of the FreeBSD kernel as > well, IIRC. However, the way it does this is to use a small microkernel > that is mach-based, and then use some of the FreeBSD and NetBSD code wrapped > around that microkernel for some of the higher level stuff. It claims to be > 4.4BSD when you telnet to it. :) > > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:22:27AM +0200, Jonas Bulow wrote: > > > > Is it an official statement from Apple that MacOSX is based on FreeBSD > > > > 3.2 or is it just a rumour? The only thing I have seen is that MacOSX is > > > > based on Mach. > > > > > > Yes, it is official. > > > > > > For example, read: http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html > > > > > > -- > > > Nimrod. > > > http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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