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Old 27th June 2008
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You do realize that Apple develops Darwin, their own open source flavor of Unix. They use some FreeBSD technology in it on top of the mach kernel. You can download Darwin sources, compile it, and run it on your system if you want. Apple uses Darwin as the base for Mac OS X on which they add on they're own proprietary libraries and user interface and such, then it becomes OS X. Mac OS X is Unix, as much as Unix as FreeBSD or any other flavor for that matter.
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