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Re:NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X by gh02t on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @08:53PM (#10126914)
> They're integrating it into FreeNAS and I think PC-BSD will follow suit

Are they planning to rebase FreeNAS on this? Why not just stay on a normal FreeBSD base? Or will there not be much noticeable difference feature wise from the user's perspective?

I can appreciate the idea of integrating launchd as a new init system and I know people have been working on that for a while, but this seems like it's much more than just that to me. Or am I misunderstanding?

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Re:NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X by vezzy-fnord on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @09:39PM (#10127044)
It's more than that, yes. It's the entire low-level OS X system libraries like libSystem, libasl, libdispatch, libnotify and so forth.

I'm not sure if they're going to wholly rebase FreeNAS on top of NextBSD, but the launchd integration has been there in feature branches for a while now.

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