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From: Brenton Bills <billsb at optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] NetBSD vs FreeBSD[HYPERscan M7]
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:22:36AM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:13:27AM +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Ron Shafran wrote:
> > > Do you know if NetBSD formed the basis for Apple's Mac OSX?
> > If I remember properly it was freeBSD.
> 
> I have it on decent authority that the kernel bits are largely FreeBSD,
> while a lot of the basic userland is from NetBSD.

Dr Dobbs Technet cast, http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_stream.html?stream_id=332, 
has a mp3 from a talk that one of the lead developers gave at USENIX, stuff like
configuration of say your resolver has been brought over from NeXT days. They also 
had to do quite a bit of hacking to get fs system differences working with HFS/HFS+.

Thanks,
	Brenton Bills.



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