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philheaton	2011-01-22 , 12:33
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Originally Posted by danramos

Actually, it's based heavily on the open-source BSD, which itself is based on UNIX. (ref; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU)

knew that...although the kernel is Mach not BSD so, no its not a BSD distro.

Originally Posted by danramos

Note that BSD is also a fully certified UNIX system, too.

...knew that too...

Originally Posted by danramos

By the by, the term *NIX includes UNIX-like as well as UNIX derived alike (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*NIX)

...and that. My point was Mac OS X is not UNIX based; it IS UNIX.

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