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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by conception on Saturday November 05, 2016 @04:10PM (#12881636)
Yeah, when OSX moved to the BSD kernel developers loved it. *nix OS, pretty GUI and with virtualization and bootcamp you can run windows/linux when you need to. It is/was a universal device unlike any other.
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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by peatmoss on Saturday November 05, 2016 @04:19PM (#12881672)
BSD userland. The kernel is a Mach-derived kernel called XNU.
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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by glhaynes on Saturday November 05, 2016 @04:45PM (#12881801)
XNU combines a BSD-like kernel (providing POSIXish services) with Mach. The BSD portion of the kernel runs in supervisor mode like the Mach portion.
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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by peatmoss on Saturday November 05, 2016 @04:49PM (#12881821)
Oh interesting--I didn't realize that was the case. I guess it is correct to call the kernel BSD in that sense!
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