IIRC, the Next OS, which Steve Jobs started when he left Apple, was based on Mach. And then around the time Jobs came back to Apple, Apple bought Next, which by that time had dumped its hardware and was working only on software. Don't know what happened to the OS after that. Petre Scheie >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 11/7/01, 9:40:53 AM, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net> wrote regarding Re: [TCLUG] Freebsd lovin': > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <chrome at real-time.com> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 7:59 AM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Freebsd lovin' > > > I thought that OS X was mach kernel based, making it a lightweight > > > derivative of a BSD kernel, is that right? > > not that I know of... I don't think I've heard anything like that. > It is derived from the FreeBSD 3.x kernel in particular. I beleive they > have incorporated many changes from 4.x as well. They (Apple) even hired > Jordon Hubbard (a FreeBSD core member and founder) of the FreeBSD project to > join the OSX development team. > Tom Veldhouse > veldy at veldy.net > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list