On Tue Oct 07, 2003 at 12:18:41 +0000, Voytek Eymont wrote: >Every so often, I have seen a number of Q here regarding Apple Mac hardware, >hence, I'm assuming there are some Mac hardware users here, are there any >Mac OS users though ? Reading through a Mac book I picked up today (of all >places, at everythinglinux) I now know that Mac OS is *nix based.
The underlying kernel of Mac OS X is Darwin. Darwin is a a nice mix-in of Mach, BSD and the Apple IOKit for device drivers. This is different to the older Mac OS which didn't even have memory protection iirc. >anyhow, any advice appreciated, apologise for this far off topic, perhaps >replies might be directed directly to me if that is too far off here Well Darwin is open source, even if the Mac OS X libraries aren't, so I guess it is valid :). To make it more valid I will say it would be cool if someone ported the Mac OS X libraries to Linux. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
