On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:08:56PM -0500, David Andrews wrote: > The OS X kernel is "Darwin", itself based on the Mach microkernel. > Supposedly there is a good deal of higher-level BSD code in there, and > it wouldn't surprise me much to find out that FreeBSD was the source. > But it is nevertheless incorrect to say that OS X is FreeBSD.
No, it's not. *BSD on the PowerPC has always been Mach-based. If you wish to be complete, you can mention the Mach roots of the system, but Darwin is quite firmly based on FreeBSD.
