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Re:NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X by cmurf on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @07:17PM (#10126575)
Not necessarily anachronstic, considering the iXsysems CTO is Jordan Hubbard, who was previously at Apple as director of UNIX technology. Out with the old in with the less old?
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Re:NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X by vezzy-fnord on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @07:30PM (#10126618)
Adopting Mach fresh in 2015 is certainly anachronistic.
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Re:NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X by sjwright on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @08:02PM (#10126719)
It would be, except they're not adopting Mach.
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Re:NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X by gpvos on Thursday August 27, 2015 @03:19AM (#10128015)
How are you interpreting slides 5-7 then?
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Re:NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X by photosinensis on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:26PM (#10130370)
They're providing enough of a Mach-style interface that would allow them to use launchd. Basically, they're creating a compatibility layer in the kernel that allows it to pretend to be Mach.
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Re:NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X by mitchty on Thursday August 27, 2015 @08:52PM (#10133079)
Yep, it isn't that different than the linux sys call interface for running linux binaries.
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