From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 14:36:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FE337B424 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.net.il (bzq-183-85.bezeqint.net) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FZT00H1VFXYZP@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:34:48 +0300 (GMT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA41261 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:31:52 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:31:52 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on a G4? In-reply-to: ; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:37:22PM -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000825003152.A41199@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:37:22PM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > "The systems kernel, which does the heavy lifting to support all > those rich applications, is based on Mach 3.0 from Carnegie-Mellon > University and FreeBSD 3.2 (derived from the University of California at > Berkeleys BSD 4.4-Lite), the most highly regarded core technologies from > two of the most widely acclaimed OS projects of the modern era." > > I read that as saying the kernal is based off of Mach AND > FreeBSD... Not sure about Darwin specifically, but FreeBSD has been used with Mach for quite some time - before the Darwin project. Mach is only a microkernel and lacks some of the modules a full kernel needs (e.g., filesystems). It has been used with the LITES userland process that is actually a modified FreeBSD kernels that supplies a UNIX emulation layer. Applications actually run on top of this server process. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message