[TriLUG] Mac OS X is UNIX?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 18:14, Benjamin Reed wrote:
 
> OSX is very much based on NeXT, which was originally based on one of the
> BSDs (4.4BSD-lite, I think?), so there's a combination of BSD-isms and
> NeXT-specific weirdness (like their LDAP-ish configuration system and
> some other whacky stuff) that will take some getting used to coming from
> Linux, but overall I've had a lot of fun, and now I get the wonderful
> combination of a large (albeit not as large as Windows) base of Mac
> software to run and a spiffy interface, on top of a UNIX base that I can
> tinker with.  It's the best of both worlds.

NeXTStep, and now OSX, have always been based on the Mach kernel 
from CMU.  Mach, however, in order to get unix compatability, 
included BSD into Mach, so you basically get BSD, but with a
different base kernel.  So, the end result is the same, but
just a different route.

Cheers,
Tanner
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