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Oh dear... Its not even BSD-based... Its Mach based(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)) with a BSD userland
by TickleSteve 12y ago
Oh dear...
Its not even BSD-based...
Its Mach based(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)) with a BSD userland. (Read BSD-API). So its "BSD-based" in the same way as Windows is Posix-based (as it too can have a Posix userland API).
Linux != UNIX.
BSD != OSX
- bdash 12y agoThe kernel is actually a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU for details.