Re: what kernel does freebsd use?
From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 06/30/03
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:24:47 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:10:32AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
>>FreeBSD uses the FreeBSD kernel. You can recompile it using the source for
>>the FreeBSD kernel, but it is the only kernel that works with FreeBSD.
>
> Perhaps there's some confusion with OS X which starts life as FreeBSD, but
> uses a mach kernel.
Perhaps there's some confusion with OS X. :-)
OS X started life as NEXTSTEP, using the CMU Mach 2.0 kernel written by Avie
Tenavian and a BSD-4.3_reno userland, heavily influenced by SunOS 3/4. Since
NEXTSTEP, Apple has updated the BSD layer to 4.4Lite and included changes
derived from FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD-- but mostly the latter, at least at
the time I was looking.
Certainly it's false to claim that OS X started as FreeBSD.
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