MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

David Kelly dkelly at hiwaay.net
Mon Nov 6 18:05:16 UTC 2006


On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:41:28AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> David Kelly writes:
> 
> >  Yes, basically. FreeBSD is free for the taking, so Apple
> >  took. Steve Jobs' NeXT team had a lot of familiarity with Mach,
> >  so they took from there also too. A good number of well known
> >  FreeBSD people now work for Apple, there are a number of FreeBSD
> >  device drivers shipping with MacOS X.
> 
> 	In the interest of perspective, it's worth noting this has not
> be a one-sided arrangement.  Apple has contributed substantial
> debugging info and even blocks of code - often for the kind of
> boring/unglamorous stuff which doesn't get a lot of attention in
> mostly volunteer project.

Yes! Thanks for bringing that up. I particularly remember Apple's work
on NFS.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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