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Old 21st November 2008
DNAeon DNAeon is offline
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It's funny that, now that Apple has slowed down, FreeBSD is releasing so frequently and it was FreeBSD 7 that picked up the pace to better match Apple's releases. It didn't hurt that they were also giving a world hungry for critical patches and cutting-edge releases what they wanted either. FreeBSD efficiently used SMP configurations now, supporting more than two processors, and borrowed filesystem journaling from Darwin. It also used Apple's own GCC4, which had been building Mac OS X since Leopard. And like Leopard, FreeBSD also integrated Sun's DTrace and a new scheduler. It was clear that by this point FreeBSD releases were almost entirely based on what Apple had done with Darwin the year or so prior.
Wow, someone is gotta be joking...

Could this be true? I don't believe FreeBSD takes code from Darwin, anyway..
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