Saying that Mac OS X is basically FreeBSD is inaccurate and I wish that people would stop repeating it. Darwin is built around XNU, a hybrid kernel that's based

Saying that Mac OS X is basically FreeBSD is inaccurate and I wish that people would stop repeating it. Darwin is built around XNU, a hybrid kernel that's based on Mach, FreeBSD, and 4.3/4.4BSD code. It's true that a lot of code came from BSD, but Mac OS X is not FreeBSD. http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch.html http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch.html