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by recoil 4950 days ago
So OS X is really just a skinned FreeBSD?
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No, it's a Mach microkernel (except it's not because they shoved some non-microkernel stuff in) with a BSD userland, and a NextSTEP GUI/framework on top.
As I understand it, the kernel is pretty much a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD, and I don't think you can really say that it's more of one than the other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

There's definitely more BSD in there than just the userland.