Re: [Nolug] Mac OS X to make an appearance at the next meeting.... maybe.

er...thought mach came from old school...bsdi, or original berkley
shit...please slap me if I'm wrong...

> Eddie Benson <ebenson@ebo.net> writes:
>
> > > Yeppers, OS X is based on the BSDs kernels, specifically FreBSD
> > > (bleh, but I won't complain). Its not very visible under Aqua,
> > > but if you are like me and use the shell 90% of the time, you
> > > start to notice that everything has the BSD feel (flags, etc.).
> >
> > What shells are available?
>
> yyamano@bootzilla% uname -a
> Darwin localhost 5.2 Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35
PST 2001; root:xnu/xnu-201.14.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
> yyamano@bootzilla% cd /bin
> yyamano@bootzilla% ls *sh
> csh sh tcsh zsh
>
> Strictly, Mac OS X kernel is not based on BSD. It's based on Mach with
> BSD component (userland were taken from FreeBSD and libraries are
> frozzm NetBSD, I think). But for a user, not a kernel hacker and an
> administrator, It's almost same as BSD, I believe.
>
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> Yuji Yamano <yyamano@kt.rim.or.jp>
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