Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 26th Feb 2006 14:15 UTC, submitted by subterrific
Apple had their pick of kernels when transitioning from OS 9 to OS X, and they chose to create their own kernel based on Mach 3.0. Was that really the best decision or did Apple make a huge mistake? At the time Linux was gaining support and developing rapidly, while development on Mach had pretty much ended two years earlier. This article makes a case for Apple using the Linux kernel in a future version of the Mac OS.
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2005-12-13
Exactly true! -Plus there would be generous technological advances for Apple to gain server wise, since Solaris, and thus Open Solaris, is extremely advanced in many areas that Apple's own Mac OS X Server does not adequately address (or so it seems on looking through the AnadTech benchmarks that seem to dump on XNU's thread handling capabilities and general web server and database server performance).
The adoption of a kernel like Solaris would make a whole lotta sense to Apple, I think, were they to change their ways. Soliris IS after all pretty *BSD-ish in its ways.