Subject: Re: OT: a dumb alpha question
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/15/2001 11:01:00
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:53:02PM -0500, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> Well, OSX gives you a BSD-based OS (Darwin is based on FreeBSD) with
> the elegance of MacOS. Aqua/Quartz is definitely "something other
> than a run-of-the-mill window manager". The "Fink" project at
> sourceforge is similar to NetBSD's packages collection.
Actually, Darwin is based on Mach + NetBSD + FreeBSD.
(Look at the RCS IDs in the binaries in a Darwin /bin sometime...)
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>