Intel Mac experiences

[John Cruz]

Scott Sipe wrote:
> This is not true--how do you think Bootcamp works? It provides BIOS 
> emulation for booting windows, and whatever else.
>
> Secondly, why do people keep saying that OSX and FreeBSD are 
> "basically the same operating system" -- if by basically the same you 
> mean have a unix base, then sure. OSX runs on a hybrid mach 
> microkernel (and with all the performance baggage this comes with). A 
> great deal of the userland utilities originate from NetBSD or even 
> OpenBSD in addition to FreeBSD. There is no ports system (sure, 
> darwinports is similiar, though far less extensive). Boot system is 
> entirely different. There's no way to buildworld or buildkernel, etc. 
> Directory services are done completely differently than in Freebsd 
> (netinfo?). There's not even an /etc/fstab. One could go on...
>
> Scott
Bootcamp has nothing to do with it. Apple issues a firmware update that 
will allow for BIOS emulation, all bootcamp does is hold your hand 
through getting windows on there.

When it comes right down to it, the differences between freeBSD and 
MacOS X (darwin) are very minimal. No, you can't do a buildworld because 
you can't build the kernel source because the source is closed. But why 
would you need to? The kernel is already built and optomized for your 
Mac hardware. As you stated, the kernels are different anyways. No ports 
system, but when you have a plethora of point-click-install software the 
need isn't really there.But basic OS functioning is the same, they all 
(all the BSDs and MacOS) are basically the same at the os level, but not 
the kernel level. Also, i'm pretty sure that /etc/fstab/ exists on OS X

~John