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Re:Porting Swift to Haiku by JdeBP on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:18PM (#14622886)
It's somewhat unjust to lump the BSDs in with Linux operating systems there. One of the noticeable things about them in contrast to Linux operating systems is that they do develop the operating system (which is a "kernel" plus a "shell" of applications, of course) as a single coherent whole.

Ironically, you provided an example of this: Lots of things can qualify as an HTTP client. FreeBSD's "fetch" utility and OpenBSD's "ftp" utility are certainly among them. Those are both parts of the operating system, developed by the FreeBSD/OpenBSD developers.

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Re:Porting Swift to Haiku by waddlesplash on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:29PM (#14622948)
I suppose I am a bit in error here, yes. The BSDs are indeed more unified than Linux is, anyway, although the unification only extends a few levels up from the kernel. Desktop environments are still mostly developed by other teams (and are usually just ports of Linux ones.)
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