From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 02:41:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F35916A412 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 02:41:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: from mail.outstep.com (D2095.servadmin.com [12.158.188.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B772B43D46 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 02:41:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: (qmail 15267 invoked by uid 511); 5 Nov 2006 20:42:34 -0600 Received: from 68.32.113.56 by mail.outstep.com (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.87/2106. spamassassin: 3.1.3. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(68.32.113.56):SA:0(1.6/5.0):. Processed in 0.449712 secs); 06 Nov 2006 02:42:34 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: + X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: lonnie@outstep.com via mail.outstep.com X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(68.32.113.56):SA:0(1.6/5.0):. Processed in 0.449712 secs Process 15258) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.11?) (lonnie@outstep.com@68.32.113.56) by mail.outstep.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2006 20:42:33 -0600 Message-ID: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:35:39 -0500 From: Lonnie Cumberland User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:41:59 -0000 Greetings All, Being a long time Linux user and now looking into moving over to FreeBSD, I decided to so some research on the web to try and get a better idea as to the strengths and weaknesses as compared to other operating systems like Linux (Fedora, Gentoo, etc..), OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Opensolaris. From what I have found, FreeBSD seems to be at the very top in almost every way. In my Internet travels, I came across a site that has this MAC OS X ( which I guess is called Darwin?) at: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html and have noticed that they seem to have built the MAC OS X from a core of FreeBSD 5.x. Do I read this correctly? Also, what are the differences between MAC OS X and Darwin? The reason that I ask all of this stuff is because if we were going to take a distro to start building from as a base for a project that we are working on then would it make more sense to take the latest FreeBSD 6.1 or the MAC OS X (Darwin) as the base since there has been a great amount of work on both distros and they are also both BSD based? I guess that I am still a little confused on some of these things and hope that some one can help to answer some of my newbie questions. Thanks and have a good day, Lonnie T. Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated Tel: 866-425-7010 Email: Lonnie@outstep.com Lonnie_Cumberland@yahoo.com Recommended sites: http://www.peoplesquest.com