OS X does have it's own kernel (Darwin), but a number of it's subsystems were di...

		profquail on Dec 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fun... OS X does have it's own kernel (Darwin), but a number of it's subsystems were directly derived from FreeBSD. Apple's developer site has a page listing the pieces of FreeBSD which were incorporated into OS X: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwi...