Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Jun 2009 21:24 UTC
The future of SkyOS, the closed-source alternative operating system, had been hanging by a thread for a long time now. Barely any releases, until they came to a grinding halt altogether and Robert Szeleney explained he was pondering the future of SkyOS, and where to take it from here. One of the main problems was a lack of driver support which really made development difficult. Well, this is a problem Szeleney might be able to fix.
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Darwin is a BSD kernel used by Mac OS X.
Actually: "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)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#Kernel
So the Kernel in Darwin is the Mach Microkernel.
Unless you mean BSD as the license, the Mach kernel used in Darrwin and the BSD kernel used in BSD OS's are two different things.
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Mac OS doesn't use Linux or BSD kernel though.