Uh, no. Jobs already had a Mach kernel, with a BSD user layer. And that's what they kept. I don't think Linux was ever seriously considered. NeXT's OS made hea

Uh, no. Jobs already had a Mach kernel, with a BSD user layer. And that's what they kept. I don't think Linux was ever seriously considered. NeXT's OS made heavy use of Mach messaging, and other features, that would be missing in Linux. The original article says the offer happened in 2000, which would be kinda late to be changing the OS X kernel so dramatically. And why would he need Linus to do a kernel when he had Avie Tevanian, from the Mach project and NeXT? Linus isn't the only "kernel guy".