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Originally Posted by pi11  I would have to disagree with the comment that OS X isn't really BSD. Sure technically, Darwin is the BSD. I would be interested to know the reasons for not considering OS X a proper BSD system.  |
The OSX kernel is Darwin + Some Apple bits. The Darwin kernel is built from 4.3BSD + Mach kernel (from Carnegie Mellon). Technically, it shares very little code with the standard BSDs in use today. OSX is a unix-like desktop system, but to me it seems that the BSDs are more similar to Linux than they are to OSX.
Of course, I'm just arguing semantics.
I just find it odd that everyone lumps OSX together with the other BSDs when that is a very small part of the system.