Author: Kevin Buettner Date: Subject: Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box
On Aug 22, 4:36pm, Trent Shipley wrote:
> Why didn't they use Open BSD?
What makes you think OpenBSD is more suitable than Linux for an
application like Tivo?
> (Hey, it was good enough for Apple!)
For what purpose? If you're referring to MacOS X, then I think you're
mistaken. Apple didn't base MacOS X on OpenBSD. (MacOS X is based on
the technology that came from NeXT which (IIRC) was something more
along the lines of BSD 4.2 with a Mach microkernel.)
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