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What version of FreeBSD is Jaguar based on?



What version of Darwin is Jag based on?



What version of the Mach micro kernal?

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    drumbug1drumbug1 Posts: 155member
    [quote]Originally posted by dstranathan:

    <strong>What version of Darwin is Jag based on?

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    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"
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  • Reply 2 of 5
    rogue27rogue27 Posts: 607member
    [quote]

    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.
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    fahlmanfahlman Posts: 743member
    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>
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  • Reply 4 of 5
    rogue27rogue27 Posts: 607member
    [quote]Originally posted by fahlman:

    <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)
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    [quote]Originally posted by dstranathan:

    <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.
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