-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lorin Lund wrote: > Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >> Greetings All, >> >> Being a long time Linux user and now looking into moving over to >> FreeBSD, I decided to so some research on the web to try and get a >> better idea as to the strengths and weaknesses as compared to other >> operating systems like Linux (Fedora, Gentoo, etc..), OpenBSD, NetBSD, >> and Opensolaris. >> >> From what I have found, FreeBSD seems to be at the very top in almost >> every way. >> >> In my Internet travels, I came across a site that has this MAC OS X ( >> which I guess is called Darwin?) at: >> >> http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html >> >> and have noticed that they seem to have built the MAC OS X from a core >> of FreeBSD 5.x. >> Do I read this correctly? >> Also, what are the differences between MAC OS X and Darwin? > I'm pretty sure that Darwin does not include the MAC gui. I believe > that the guis > used on Darwin are basically the same as found on *BSD and Linux - KDE, > Gnome, ...
Darwin is the core to the OS; it doesn't contain a GUI, unless installed from ports. Quartz is the "GUI platform" for OSX. - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFTr7s6CkrZkzMC68RAhAmAJ97ceqgoCvP8vZAh1IFq1qQyt7trgCfXe+w 8SWtLI36Fbx7mFyMGbbs7W8= =EgRZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
