31st December 2008
|
|
UNIX lover
|
|
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Germany
Posts: 427
|
|
There you can read something about it from Robert Watson:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...st/003674.html
Quote:
I'd be a bit cautious about saying XNU is a Mach kernel. XNU is not a
microkernel, but it contains a lot more Mach code than FreeBSD does.
However, XNU contains massive amounts of FreeBSD code, including countless IPC
models, security parts, VFS, network stack, distributed file systems, etc.
Saying that "Mac OS X is just FreeBSD with an Apple GUI" is certainly false on
face value, but it's not correct to say that the kernel isn't in significant
part FreeBSD-derived.
|
and
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Li.../msg00072.html
__________________
use UNIX or die :-)
|