On 5/17/10 9:10 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > Is this something that should be investigated by the Open/Free-BSD (I > cannot keep which version MacOSX is based upon) It's FreeBSD. > community for inclusion > into the base kernel? Maybe. Actually, Mac OS X doesn't use a stock FreeBSD kernel. It uses a modified Mach kernel (the way NT uses a "modified microkernel") called "XNU". Many of XNU's BSD parts were forked from FreeBSD (a few parts come from other BSDs).
You can get the source from http://www.opensource.apple.com . It's the 'xnu' project, after selecting a version of Mac OS X. > > If it is not, then it should be something under consideration by the > Wine project. Hacking the kernel to make one program work is not a > 'best practice'. That might be true, but AJ doesn't seem to be warm to the idea of doing this in Wine. Chip
