Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Nov 2008 22:56 UTC
Saturday November 8, I received an email from someone, inquiring if I would be interested in "doing a first interview/introduction into a new operating system". We get these emails and news submissions all the time, and most of the time, "new operating system" means Ubuntu-with-a-black-theme, so we don't bother. I figured this time things wouldn't be different, but after a bit of digging around, there's a little more to it this time.
Thread beginning with comment 336980
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE[2]: Piggybacking is the only sensible policy
by Soulbender on Tue 11th Nov 2008 18:54
in reply to "RE: Piggybacking is the only sensible policy"
Member since:2005-08-18
RE[3]: Piggybacking is the only sensible policy
by WereCatf on Tue 11th Nov 2008 19:08
in reply to "RE[2]: Piggybacking is the only sensible policy"
Member since:2006-02-15
OSX runs on a Mach kernel, not a FreeBSD kernel.
"Darwin is built around XNU, a hybrid kernel that combines the Mach 3 microkernel, various elements of BSD (including the process model, network stack, and virtual file system),[2] and an object-oriented device driver API called I/O Kit."
So, it does have BSD elements in it and it is not a pure Mach 3 microkernel either. Also, the userland consists of code taken from NEXTSTEP, FreeBSD and a several others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2006-05-09
MacOSX is actually such thing, in lower levels, it runs a forked FreeBSD (Darwin).