[Coco] macos was Re telnet and terminal questions

[Christopher Hawks]

Willard Goosey said the following on 12/27/2009 09:20 PM:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 07:38:53PM -0600, Christopher Hawks wrote:
>> 	Why is that strange? Macs run FreeBSD which is Linux's step-brother. 
>> 	Most of the software on a Mac is GPL (except the user interface).
> 
> I ferget that it's been a nearly a decade since I used NeXTSTeP, and
> lots of things can change, and I haven't ever even attempted to keep
> up with what Apple's been doing.
> 
> So they ditched MACH and display postscript/quicktime and are running
> FreeBSD and X these days?  
> 
> I could swear that just a week or so ago I read a blog complaining
> that Apple still hasn't added a proper Objective-C API to quicktime...

Willard:

	They still have Quicktime and their own stuff (and their kernel), but, the 
support programs and utilities are from FreeBSD. Go to 
http://www.opensource.apple.com/ to download the source.

-- 
Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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 > Linux is not user-friendly.
It _is_ user-friendly.  It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.
	-- Seen somewhere on the net.