Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:23:44 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 248, Issue 1 Message-ID: <20080729062344.GA86638@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080729052101.GB1995@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> References: <20080728120008.0BBF710656C5@hub.freebsd.org> <02c801c8f0dc$16caf410$0100010a@oemspc03> <20080729052101.GB1995@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx>
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Quoting Szilveszter Adam, who wrote on Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:21:01AM +0200 .. > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:02:23PM +0200, Salvatore Albanese wrote: > > We must remind that apple experimented with UNIX many years ago and now use > > the Darwin distro for MAC OS X. This is a big statement! Imagine a BSD > > distro that is so easy even windows users find it confortable. 20% of the > > windows market moved to MAC OX S in that last 18 months. > > While I agree that decent, and enthusiastic (but not zealot) advocacy is > a good thing, I think it is very important to say the truth. > > It is just too frequently that I here statements that essentially say: > "MacOS X is just FreeBSD with an Apple GUI on it". That's just not true. > The Darwin kernel is a Mach kernel (something that the BSDs do not have > and did not have with the exception of the failed attempt xMach) which Well, DEC OSF/1 also heavily built on Mach. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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