On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 04:47:07AM -0300, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:17:21AM -0300, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti > > > > OSX does not use the BSD kernel. it uses some of the freebsd userland > > (after apple broke it and fubared it) > > No, no no. Mach can't support an userland all by itself, it needs > servers; in > Mac OS X, these servers are just one, and it is the BSD kernel minus the > low-level hardware interface part.
you are wrong. > And the FreeBSD connection is really recent, from just before the > debutting of > Mac OS X. It all started a long, long time ago in NeXTStep, when FreeBSD > didn't even exist. yes NeXTStep stole and bastardized thier userland from elsewhere. > What I call maturity is performance, leanness, stability, portability, > stability -- have I mentioned stability? linux doesn't crash when you have an unsupported auxilary card in it. don't get me wrong, i like bsd, but the truth is its not any more mature then linux on powerpc, less so in reality. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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