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Originally Posted by Matt  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. |
Fair enough.
I find that OS X is a great desktop/laptop OS. I wouldn't use it on the server or as a firewall though. Even though it has the BSD bits. I think the answer to this poll questions is heavily dependent on the user's purpose for using BSD.