In message <76865be6-8041-498d-91ae-36ef80c91...@kreme.com> "@lbutlr" writes: > > On Mar 13, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Robert Chalmers <rob...@chalmers.com.au> wrote: > > Nice hardware, but the software is really recycled FreeBSD. say what? > > This should not be news. One of the reasons I chose FreeBSD for my > servers was because I wouldn't have to change modes between OS X and > my servers. > > -- > Marriages made in heaven are not exported.
Perhaps being pedantic again, but ... oh another squirrel ... The kernel has its roots in Mach (back in the late 1980s) but doesn't closely resemble Mach since long ago. The utilities are a branch from FreeBSD a very long time ago and they do track and merge in some changes but there are a lot of differences. FreeBSD also uses code that originates from places other than BSD - for example, see src/contrib and src/sys/contrib. There are some things you can get from FreeBSD ports collection to make your Mac and FreeBSD systems look even more similar. And of course Apple's window system is unique and in no way related to the Xorg or xf86 or original MIT flavors of X-windows that FreeBSD has used over time. Yes there still is a lot of similarity, but recycled version ... No - just a quick path to get closer to posix in the utilities with least restrictive licensing. Curtis
