Re: x11-users-some gui stuff
Re: x11-users-some gui stuff
- Subject: Re: x11-users-some gui stuff
- From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:22:03 -0500
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:41:36AM -0700, faddah steve wolf wrote:
:
: no offense, but i'm wondering where you pulled this idea fresh from???
: apple *has* to have an open source project like darwin under os x, not
: just because it seems like a good idea to "sound like linux" and have
: the underpinnings of the os be "open source," but because the root of
: the system is the freebsd mach kernel and therefore has to be free and
: open, under its license agreement. os 9 classic was created all at 1
: infinity loop in cupertino and has many lawyers to make sure it never
: leaves that domain. it's two different animals.
Actually, FreeBSD implements a traditional monolithic kernel and doesn't
do Mach. OS X has a Mach kernel that weds the traditional microkernel
and the BSD personality together for performance reasons.
--
Eugene Lee
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