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| author | Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-10 06:16:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-10 06:16:12 +0000 |
| commit | 82540f7710e6a9d33d3f052d89deccc9c8c62d5f (patch) | |
| tree | 15d44e1a55ca91a410ec45402c890c3e518c5ae7 | |
| parent | 6fe42c4da35def6caafaba04f03013771683cd3c (diff) | |
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Clarify that Darwin is not just an open source kernel, but in fact a
fully functional open source OS.
Inaccuracy noted by: jared nied <jnied@southampton.liu.edu>
Notes
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svn path=/head/; revision=16242
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml index 6703071269..ed3cb45157 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml @@ -437,9 +437,15 @@ <para><ulink url="http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/">Mac OS X</ulink> is the latest version of the operating system for <ulink url="http://www.apple.com/">Apple Computer Inc.'s</ulink> - Macintosh line. Unlike the rest of the operating system, the - kernel is open source. As part of this development, key Apple - developers have commit access to the FreeBSD source tree.</para> + Macintosh line. The BSD Unix core of this operating + system, <ulink + url="http://developer.apple.com/darwin/">Darwin</ulink>, + is available as a fully functional open source operating + system for x86 and PPC computers. The Aqua/Quartz + graphics system and many other proprietary aspects of + Mac OS X remain closed-source, however. Several Darwin + developers are also FreeBSD committers, and + vice-versa.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect2> |