Is Mac based on BSD ?

inspiredbymetal · 09-09-2005, 05:17 PM

hey

some one told me that Mac is based on BSD is that ture ?

thanks

XavierP · 09-09-2005, 05:20 PM

Yes it is. And this thread is moved to Other *Nix, because neither Mac OS or BSD is Linux.

btmiller · 09-09-2005, 09:28 PM

To be more precise, Mac OS X uses the Darwin kernel, which is open-source. Darwin itself is a derivative of the Mach microkernel. The user utilities are mostly from FreeBSD, IIRC.

Of course all the OS X GUI stuff developed by Apple is there's and closed source.

equinox · 09-12-2005, 05:59 AM

Such a stupid post, I mean really... If you go to Apple's site and actually do some reading instead of crying out to be spoonfed, you would see that it is based on BSD.

jlliagre · 09-25-2005, 12:16 PM

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Such a stupid post, I mean really...

Questions are rarely stupid, stupid may be not asking, stupid may be commenting questions too ...

shadowsa · 10-14-2005, 03:47 AM

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Originally posted by jlliagre
Questions are rarely stupid, stupid may be not asking, stupid may be commenting questions too ...

i agree with that, and if he had time to write that he could either save his time or answer the question first, hrmm if i think about it i coud save my time to.... LOL

Bjerrk · 10-17-2005, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by equinox
Such a stupid post, I mean really...

What post are you talking about? your own?

If you don't want to help, don't. But please don't mock less experienced users.

Kind regards Bjerrk