Mac OS X

[Pedro Díaz Jiménez]

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On Wednesday 01 August 2001 15:57, Oliver Hattwig wrote:
> Hi out there!
>
> I'm new to the mailing list and watching this thread a fairly long time.
> Though I'm neither a Mac OS X user nor interested in supporting a
> specific given point of view in this discussion, I just wanted to
> mention some more facts.
>
> On Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:52 PM, Pedro Díaz Jiménez wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 July 2001 23:09, Mark Weaver wrote:
> >> wait...i'm confused about something here. if MacOS X is the Mac GUI
> >> sitting on top of a Linux kernel/filesystem with all the bells,
> >> whistles, and strengths of Linux [...]
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > MacOS X has nothing to do with Linux. It's kernel is neither the linux
> > one or the *BSD ones.
>
> That's not correct regarding what Apple says on its own pages
> (http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/darwin/):
>
> "[...] Darwin is the core of Mac OS X. The Darwin kernel is based on
> FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies [...]"
>
Yep,

The kernel is mainly Match, which is not FreeBSD. MacOSX has a BSD layer, but 
the kernel itself is Match (microkernel). This has nothing to do with the 
fact that MOX can be considered a unix/unix clone/unix alike  system 

Cheers
Pedro
> And even clearer from the Tech Specs page from Apples own web site
> (http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs/):
>
> "[...] At the foundation of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX-based
> core operating system that delivers unprecedented stability and
> performance."
>
> > MacOSX has a *BSD compatibility layer arround the kernel that
> > provides the POSIX api and all the things commonly found on a Unix
> > system. Again, MacOSX is not linux or BSD with a pretty UI
> >
> > [...]
>
> So, IMPOV Mac Os X is not based on Linux but - at least partially - based
> on FreeBSD. And what I think is more important is the fact that Apple
> itself claims Mac OS X to be UNIX-based.
> Any discussion whether it is Linux-based or FreeBSD-based is therefore of
> no big relevance. Let's sort things out and find the reasons why GnuPG is
> making problems on Mac OS X, whether the installation is not working
> properly or something has to be done on the code.
>
> Regards and HAND,
>
> Oliver
>
>
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