FreeBSD and MacOS

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Martin Olsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * MacOS X is based on FreeBSD
> * there is a x86 kernel for FreeBSD
> 
> Does that mean I can buy a copy of MacOS X, download an x86 kernel for 
> freeBSD, do some (or quite alot of) hacking and then get MacOS X running 
> on my PC?
> 
take a look at the Darwin project.

> I realize that such hacking would be quite substantial but maybe if I 
> forgot about audio and all that, just how much work would it be? Could 
> it be done?
> 
Do not forget that all the things which make a Mac a Mac are still 
closed source. It is more like Linux. Linux alone is pretty useless 
without GNU, X and so on.

Erich