Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Sep 2006 21:05 UTC, submitted by oferkv
"Apple has brought BSD back into the public eye by making it the foundation of its Darwin operating system, which is in turn the foundation of the OS X software platform. Apple is a strong believer in the orchestral model; Darwin distributions are skinny, reflecting Apple's willingness to make choices among dozens or hundreds of contenders in each functional category. Apple's selections become part of OS X. More than any commercial software platform, OS X is unified, consistent. And soon it will be Unix."
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2005-07-06
That is a statement that is inaccurate. Darwin is all BSD, all the time
4.4BSD-Lite2, is of course BSD, as are FreeBSD and NetBSD. Mach is also BSD. Mach was developed starting from the 4.2BSD kernel. Mach was written into 4.2BSD, starting from the inside-out. Much code migrated betwen Mach and BSD in the early years. For example, the "BSD VM" that was introduced in 4.4BSD, and still exists in heavily-modified form in FreeBSD and OpenBSD is the Mach 2.0 VM.