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&gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of
&gt; matty91 at bellsouth.net
&gt; Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 11:52 AM
&gt; To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
&gt; Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Re: posting to Linux mail list
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Chris Ricker wrote:
&gt;
&gt; &gt; On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, aaron wrote:
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; &gt; As I believe I have pointed out before with info like...
&gt; &gt; &gt; &lt;<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://developer.apple.com/unix/index.html";>http://developer.apple.com/unix/index.html</a>&gt;
&gt; &gt; &gt; ...there is nothing of &quot;emulation&quot; about it. The integral,
&gt; low level FreeBSD
&gt; &gt; &gt; Unix layer handles the overwhelming majority of OSeX network
&gt; interaction and
&gt; &gt; &gt; program API's. The full FreeBSD kernel (currently FreeBSD 5
&gt; with OSeX Panther
&gt; &gt; &gt; 10.3.x) is about as far from &quot;rudimentary&quot; as it gets.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Not really. All your basic OS functionality (memory management,
&gt; &gt; multitasking, scheduling, etc.) is provided by Mach. The Unix
&gt; emulation is
&gt; &gt; through the FreeBSD / NetBSD mish-mash OS personality which
&gt; rides on top of
&gt; &gt; that.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; To me, it's not appreciably different than installing Cygwin on NT and
&gt; &gt; calling that &quot;Unix on the desktop&quot;.... Neither really are, or
&gt; are &quot;desktop
&gt; &gt; Unix done right&quot; -- they're both command-line unix-like worlds
&gt; (for the most
&gt; &gt; part, though some aspects of both OS X and cygwin's Unix layer are just
&gt; &gt; weird) side-by-side with basically separate, non-integrated,
&gt; non-Unix GUI
&gt; &gt; worlds.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; *shrug* I'm not sure what a really graphical desktop-oriented Unix would
&gt; &gt; look like (or if it's possible -- how do you GUI an inherently
&gt; textual OS?),
&gt; &gt; but OS X ain't it, IMO.
&gt; &gt;
&gt;
&gt; I am starting to wonder if migrating OS X to Linux makes sense. With the
&gt; introduction of the Linux 2.6 kernel, and the scalability and security
&gt; enhancements, I wonder if Apple might consider using the Linux kernel
&gt; instread of the Mach micro kernel? From a raw resource perspective, Apple
&gt; would gain the development efforts of thousands and thousands of
&gt; developers, though porting it would prob take time. Has anyone studied the
&gt; Mach kernel? How  does it stack up with other OSs on multiple procs?
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