At 11:01 AM -0800 12/15/01, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>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.

Yes, it is a stechild with many parents...but the "generalized" 
answer given is usually FreeBSD...*BSD, MkLinux (OSF), OpenSTEP are 
other contributors to the gene pool).

Mike
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