FreeBSD and MacOS

[Eitarou Kamo]

HI Justin,

Justin Walker wrote:

>
> On Jul 1, 2004, at 5:28, Eitarou Kamo wrote:
>
>>
>
> Darwin, as the underpinnings for Mac OS X, is entirely open source, in 
> the sense that you can build a running Darwin system from the 
> open-source code available from Apple. You can't completely replace 
> corresponding components in Mac OS X with code from the Darwin code 
> base and have a working system (some frameworks/libraries are only 
> partially open source).
>
> Some components of the kernel are not open-source, but they are not 
> needed to build a Darwin system, or to build a kernel that can replace 
> the one you have on a running Mac OS X system. These components are 
> loadable kernel modules, and as such, will load into a rebuilt kernel 
> of the same version level.
>
> Hope that isn't too confusing.
>
It may be OK, I guess. I didn't know Darwin well so far. and
I'm not going to port or derive Darwin to other systems. But
I'm interested in a bit.

Eitarou

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