A quality operating system

[Ryan Coleman]

On Aug 21, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Adam Vande More wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal at usa.net> wrote:
> 
>> --As of August 20, 2011 7:01:07 PM -0700, Carl G Smith is alleged to have
>> said:
>> 
>> I have heard that the OS X OS is based on FreeBSD. Is this true?
>>> 
>> 
>> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>> 
>> Partially.  It combines a mostly Mach kernel with some FreeBSD-derived
>> userland and interfaces, then adds a proprietary window manager and UI on
>> top of the rest.
>> 
>> So the largest single source of code is probably FreeBSD, but neither the
>> kernel or the part most people interact with isn't.
> 
> 
> This is incorrect.
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2008-August/003674.html

I read the article... and it says that the largest single source of code when it was written was FreeBSD. 21MM lines out of 39MM overall.

Now since then they've released a lot of new features and what-not so I doubt it still holds at 53.8% but I would bet it is still the single largest source of code.

Does it matter? No.

Thank you.