Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly Mach 3.0, operating-system services based on 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), high-performance networking facilities, and support for multiple integrated file systems.
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Well, It sounds like Jaguar is based on BSD 4.4. I'd assume Panther will be based on a more recent version of BSD, since 4.7 is out already. Of course, I have no clue which version Apple will use. They have to pick a version to work with while there is enough time to get the work done, so the choice has probably already been made.
I think it would be in their best interests to work with stable code instead of scraping together an OS at the last minute from a collection of unproven code.
I don't know if they could realistically have enough time if they were using the BSD 5.0 code, and I don't know if it's really that much better than 4.7 to be worth the risks.
(risks being buggy code and/or running out of time)
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<strong>What version of Darwin is Jag based on?
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Depends on what version of Jaguar you are using:
10.2.0=6.0
10.2.1=6.1
10.2.2=6.2
10.2.3=6.3
10.2.4=6.4
open up a terminal and type "uname -srp"
Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly Mach 3.0, operating-system services based on 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), high-performance networking facilities, and support for multiple integrated file systems.
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Well, It sounds like Jaguar is based on BSD 4.4. I'd assume Panther will be based on a more recent version of BSD, since 4.7 is out already. Of course, I have no clue which version Apple will use. They have to pick a version to work with while there is enough time to get the work done, so the choice has probably already been made.
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/announce.html"; target="_blank">FreeBSD 5.0 Release Announcement</a>
Let's hope that Apple had access to a pre-release of 5.0 and has built 10.3 on top of it.
Though it's interesting that FreeBSD has not been officially ported to a PowerPC processor yet. See link.
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html"; target="_blank">FreeBSD PowerPC Project</a>
<strong>FreeBSD is actually at version 5.0.
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/announce.html"; target="_blank">FreeBSD 5.0 Release Announcement</a>
Let's hope that Apple had access to a pre-release of 5.0 and has built 10.3 on top of it.
Though it's interesting that FreeBSD has not been officially ported to a PowerPC processor yet. See link.
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html"; target="_blank">FreeBSD PowerPC Project</a></strong><hr></blockquote>
I think it would be in their best interests to work with stable code instead of scraping together an OS at the last minute from a collection of unproven code.
I don't know if they could realistically have enough time if they were using the BSD 5.0 code, and I don't know if it's really that much better than 4.7 to be worth the risks.
(risks being buggy code and/or running out of time)
<strong>What version of FreeBSD is Jaguar based on?
What version of Darwin is Jag based on?
What version of the Mach micro kernal?</strong><hr></blockquote>
The answers: <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/darwin.html"; target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/darwin.html</a>;
Jaguar's kernel and personality are equivalent to that of Darwin 6.x.