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Old September 16th, 2002, 02:37 AM
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which 'unix' version is darwin using?

is there a way to tell what 'unix' version is running on Darwin in Mac OS 10.2?
I know before 10.2 it was 4.4 BSD Lite...I think?
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Old September 16th, 2002, 05:43 AM
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Supposedly it's nearest relative is FreeBSD. Beyond that I couldn't tell you.

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http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/unix.html and afaik, 10.1.5 was still FreeBSD 4.2 modified...now 10.2.x is FreeBSD 4.4 and 10.3 when it's released is rumored to use FreeBSD 5 which is currently staged at beta.
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Well in user-space it's FreeBSD. Some if it anyway.

The best answer is it's Darwin, the other BSD
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Thumbs up We're running FreeBSD 4.4 now

According to Apple, pre-Jaguar Mac OS X was based on FreeBSD 3.2, and the 10.2 release jumped it up to FreeBSD 4.4. Note that some elements, including gcc, are even more recent now, which is cool!
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