From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 10:29:54 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Modern BSD system? (was: How good a representative of System V is Solaris) In-Reply-To: <20090530050137.GE58587@dereel.lemis.com> References: <20090530050137.GE58587@dereel.lemis.com> Message-ID: <9A776ADB-D835-479C-AA18-A63BD573ECF5@tfeb.org> On 30 May 2009, at 06:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > I won't argue the Solaris comparison, though I'm sure people could, > but certainly Mac OS X is not a good example of modern BSD. The > kernel has very little BSD in it. Look at FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD > for that. I was really thinking in terms of userland (I don't spend much time poking around at kernels...). You could still argue that OS X is not a good example of a modern BSD userland of course - I don't spend enough time with *BSD to really know what they are like, other than that, for the most part, everything has been replaced by GNU versions of itself in all of these systems :-). i guess OS X is kind of like what I would have hoped a BSD might turn into in some sense. --tim