From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 11:55:04 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 DF8CE16A53E for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:55:04 +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 7D9F843D5C for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:54:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: (qmail 1673 invoked by uid 511); 6 Nov 2006 05:55:25 -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 3.20848 secs); 06 Nov 2006 11:55:25 -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 3.20848 secs Process 1645) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.11?) (lonnie@outstep.com@68.32.113.56) by mail.outstep.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2006 05:55:22 -0600 Message-ID: <454F210C.9000602@outstep.com> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:48:28 -0500 From: Lonnie Cumberland User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper References: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> <454EB6D6.3030807@infowest.com> <454EBEEC.1060002@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <454EBEEC.1060002@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 11:55:05 -0000 Thanks everyone for the replay to my post as it did finally occur to me that perhaps this question had been asked on the mailing list, but unfortunately it occurred to me after I sent it. So, basically the Apple team took FreeBSD and the CM micro-kernel, combined them, made some improvements and added some additional code and then used it all as the MAC OS X core (without the GUI of course)? With this being said, then does anyone have any experience with the stability and performance? My guess is that if it is really based upon FreeBSD then the performance should be pretty good from my readings about FreeBSD compared to other operating systems. Thanks again to everyone, Cheers, Lonnie Garrett Cooper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lorin Lund wrote: > >> Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >> >>> 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? >>> >> I'm pretty sure that Darwin does not include the MAC gui. I believe >> that the guis >> used on Darwin are basically the same as found on *BSD and Linux - KDE, >> Gnome, ... >> > > Darwin is the core to the OS; it doesn't contain a GUI, unless installed > from ports. Quartz is the "GUI platform" for OSX. > - -Garrett > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFTr7s6CkrZkzMC68RAhAmAJ97ceqgoCvP8vZAh1IFq1qQyt7trgCfXe+w > 8SWtLI36Fbx7mFyMGbbs7W8= > =EgRZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- 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