[Discuss] our friend the nsa

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 01:18:49PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> john saylor wrote:
> >as i understand it, darwin is a fork of freebsd. apple has some non-open
> >stuff in there too.
> 
> You misunderstand it. The kernel, XNU, is FreeBSD + Mach, both open
> source. The userland is main line FreeBSD. Apple contributes code
> changes upstream to FreeBSD and Mach. See:


Here's the big question: can you trace the provenance of Apple's
shipped code to this source base?

That is, can someone use the same toolchain Apple uses to
compile the same source and get the same binaries?

And if so, has anyone done so?

-dsr-