On Jan 9, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Scott Bennett wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 08:54:55 -0600 Andrew L. Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Mac OSX is based upon FreeBSD and may have native versions of the
Mac OSX was--and unless something has changed drastically in the last
few weeks, still is--based upon NextStep, another proprietary UNIX that was
based upon a Mach 2.4-2.5 kernel and 4.3BSD above that.
Thats a Linux fallacy, that the kernel makes the OS. Apple's collection of command line utilities we commonly think of as the Unix interface come from FreeBSD. As for what I've seen of the Darwin kernel, in grand BSD tradition Apple freely picked from here and there, whatever they thought best, and made what can only be said to be their own.
Unfortunately, Apple has not released a version for Intel processors,applications you need. I talked my 11 year old nephew through an operating system upgrade (clean installation) of his ibook over the phone -- including wireless networking with WEP.
so it won't help someone with a pee cee instead of a Mac.
Wrong, its called Darwin. If you think FreeBSD is raw then go play with Darwin for a bit. Darwin is used for both i386 and PowerPC. MacOS X is Darwin plus the fantastic Apple GUI and other neat Apple stuff.
-- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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