[Gllug] System going into suspend mode

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at workshy.org
Mon Oct 23 13:46:23 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:46:26AM +0100, Chris wrote:
>    Apple Macs use a kernel based on BSD.

The OS X kernel actually is based on the Mach microkernel, with all the
things that make it a microkernel removed and a set of FreeBSD APIs
(syscall, sysctl, iosys) slapped in.  A user-space application written
for FreeBSD will compile on OS X with minimal tweaks required but that's
not the same as the kernel being BSD-based.  There are scenarios where
this is important to know and OS X is still not a good performer as a
server OS.

-- 
Bruce

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards, apart from
ostriches if you punch them hard enough.
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