On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:17:25 +0800 (PHT), Manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > 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.
Not quite dumbed down. You can get bash in the base install. Also, while the *userland* comes from FreeBSD (except bash of course and other GNU stuff) the *kernel* is based on the NeXT kernel, which is a CMU Mach3 microkernel providing BSD 4.4 kernel system call functionality (recall that a microkernel offers only a few, very simple, system calls). As the other posters have pointed out, the beauty of MacOS X is the UI. And open-source *is* at a disadvantage at UI design, since most open-source people are "scratch my itch" engineers who are perfectly happy with a CLI. -- 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
