On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:17:25 +0800 (PHT), Manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, proc ps wrote: > > > *** However, a point cited earlier about building a dumbed-down linux > > that will be strong against all the possible errors that a > > windows-spoiled user can throw at it is worth some points of merit... > > Isn't Mac OS X a dumbed-down version of FreeBSD? If Apple could do that, I > hope some other company or group can do something similar. Of course, it > would take quite a bit of manpower.
Far from it. Although Darwin is supposedly to merge with some key FreeBSD features (and do employ some of those features presentlty), Darwin is far from being even a direct derivative of FreeBSD, as the Darwin OS was spun off from NeXT (which does have a lineage back to the CSRG's 4.xBSD). Not exactly manpower, but what it takes is an incredible amount of good taste (which the people at Apple do have) to design something very aesthetic. It's not only beauty that appears from the outside, but permeates to the very innards. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
