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Kintaro:
what exactly is darwin

choasforages:

quote:
from some apple site

darwin is basicaly freebsd 4.3 kernel wraped around the mach mircokernel

 
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last time i checked. someone like the webmaster who would now, correct me if im barfing up false shit ok.

chris_h:

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:


last time i checked. someone like the webmaster who would now, correct me if im barfing up false shit ok.
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Darwin is essentially what MacOSX would be if you deleted the window server.  In fact, if you log in to an OSX box as >console, you are running in Darwin.  
Also note, when you start terminal.app in the GUI (or login remotely) it says "Welcome to Darwin!"

So yeah, it's just the unixy non-gui portion of OSX.  And it has been ported to the X86 platform by Apple.

edit:
choasforages, you make it sound like its just the kernel. It's really more like a distribution.
Mach : Darwin :: Linux : Debian

[ June 18, 2002: Message edited by: Trumpet Winsock ]

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