Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box

Kevin Buettner plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:09:46 -0700


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.)

Kevin