Panther = FreeBSD Version ?

dstranathandstranathan
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in macOS edited January 2014
Is it 4.4? or higher?

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by dstranathan

    Is it 4.4? or higher?



    Darwin is based off FreeBSD 5.



    Panther does not equal FreeBSD...



    Panther equals Darwin 7.



    Darwin gets its roots from FreeBSD.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    BTW... did you get NFS working?
  • Reply 3 of 4
    jellytusslejellytussle Posts: 86member
    Well, on the macosxlabs.org webcast on 'Panther and UNIX' (or something close), they said that it's BSD 4.8 based 'to maintain binary compatiblity for our larger software vendors'. I think there's some 5 on the userland side.
  • Reply 4 of 4
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Jellytussle

    Well, on the macosxlabs.org webcast on 'Panther and UNIX' (or something close), they said that it's BSD 4.8 based 'to maintain binary compatiblity for our larger software vendors'. I think there's some 5 on the userland side.



    Ummm... no



    According to apple...



    http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/



    Read the first paragraph.



    FreeBSD 5. Which is a very different beast than FreeBSD 4.X.



    There are two active FreeBSD projects... 4.9 (just released) and 5 (not as new as 4.9). No, they are not counting backwards.



    Check it out for yourself.
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