> Well.. here's a scary thought: the "value add" of OS X is really > Quartz (Display PDF: which is by no means original, since Sun had > Display Postscript in NeWS/OpenWindows back in 1994), the GUI, and the > applications. > > But the kernel is pretty much bone-stock FreeBSD running on top of a > Mach microkernel. This part is open-source, so it wouldn't be a > stretch for people to write drivers for the kernel (tougher than just > porting FreeBSD drivers, since FreeBSD is a "client" of the Mach > microkernel, so you have to write the drivers for Mach).
It's actually Darwin (which is based on FreeBSD). But the device driver model is very different and Darwin doesn't use mach as a microkernel. Aqua or OSX probably have run on x86 since day one because of Darwin. btw the mactelbase leak is not a fake (according to people @ freenode), actually its just incomplete leak. you dont get aqua just some of osx userland on x86. --ed Eduardo Tongson <leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~ed> _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
