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    interesting thing in apple single user mode

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by easyeye, Mar 27, 2007.

  1. easyeye

    easyeye Notebook Consultant

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    I'm on springbreak right now and forgot my apple installation disc at school. I need to repair disc, so I enter the single user mode at startup by pressing apple+S. There's an interesting line that took my attention,: some part of apple OS is under the copyright of "the regents of university of california" Anyone has an idea about what it could've be? I'm just curious because currently I'm attending UCSD, and my tuition probably funded my laptop indirectly lol :p
     
    easyeye, Mar 27, 2007
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  2. BigV

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    well, Darwin is a cousin of BSD (through the Mach kernel). BSD was developed at Berkeley.
     
    BigV, Mar 27, 2007
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    TedJ Asus fan in a can!

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    Actually, the Mach micokernel was developed by the guys at CMU... most of the command line utilities (which the average OS X user will never see), as well as the init system are straight ports from FreeBSD.
     
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    What is single user mode?
     
    passive101, Mar 27, 2007
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    It is somewhat akin to Security Mode in Windows, but without the graphic interface... I guess windows actually have something similar, called recovery console or whatever.
     
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    mm interesting
     
    easyeye, Mar 28, 2007
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