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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2006-02-26
Huh? How is Linux more versatile than NetBSD? For a start NetBSD supports over 50 architectures. Linux supports considerably less.
And Darwin (OS X) uses a mostly FreeBSD userland, only a small amount of code is from NetBSD.