[Tfug] Hate to say I told you so..

[Eric Gearhart]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:54 AM,  <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> ...Sorta.
>
> Darwin is to OS X what the Linux kernel is to your favorite distrib.
>
> Darwin is a Unix kernel with it's roots in BSD. It's been worked on by
> Apple, but remains free. The operating system (OS X) is not.
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/6.0/release.html
>
> Cheers,
> Bowie

Er, well, not exactly. To put it in "Linux terms" Darwin is a
distribution without KDE or GNOME on top of it. Darwin is an OS, not
specifically a kernel

XNU is Darwin's Kernel...

"XNU is the computer operating system kernel that Apple Inc. acquired
and developed for use in the Mac OS X operating system and released as
free and open source software as part of the Darwin operating system.
XNU is an acronym for X is Not Unix."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

--
Eric
http://nixwizard.net