On 7/26/05, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > If by "OS X x86" you mean run-of-the-mill non-Apple x86, then you're > absolutely right. Although I do remember briefly scanning through a bit > on Slashdot about some article that speculates that a possible strategy > Apple may be taking is increasing market share by "leaking" Mac OS X for > x86 to piracy channels.
Well.. here's a scary thought: the "value add" of OS X is really Quartz (Display PDF: which is by no means original, since Sun had Display Postscript in NeWS/OpenWindows back in 1994), the GUI, and the applications. But the kernel is pretty much bone-stock FreeBSD running on top of a Mach microkernel. This part is open-source, so it wouldn't be a stretch for people to write drivers for the kernel (tougher than just porting FreeBSD drivers, since FreeBSD is a "client" of the Mach microkernel, so you have to write the drivers for Mach). _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
