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vasco on March 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hidden gems in Mac OS X

>> Why Unix? Mac OS X is Unix under the hood: the Darwin kernel

Just beeing pedantic but I think Darwin is the operating system, not the kernel. The kernel is Mach 3.

colinstrickland on March 10, 2012 [–]

Well if we're being pedants about it, then the kernel is XNU ( http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.24.23/ )

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