Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003)
by bitwize on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:04PM
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It's actually a NeXTSTEP fork with FreeBSD code integrated in.
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Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003)
by jaclaz on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:13PM
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>It's actually a NeXTSTEP fork with FreeBSD code integrated in.
Sure, but NextStep itself belongs to the BSD family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_timeline.en.svg
Anyway, the accent in my previous post was more on the non-Linux nature of the MacOS.
Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003)
by bitwize on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:13PM
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Then say "Mac OS X belongs to the BSD family". Don't call it a fork of FreeBSD.
Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003)
by giancarlostoro on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @08:07PM
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Reasonably derived from FreeBSD I suppose. It's obvious to most that they made their own components on top of the work already done on FreeBSD, in some versions they've done updates to Darwin to match more current FreeBSD versions (guessing core components / kernel), not sure if they bother anymore as much though.
Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003)
by jaclaz on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:07AM
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It is actually more complicated than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history#/media/F...
There is a "base" of MACH/NextStep that is partially based on "original" BSD and then there are some parts added later coming from both FreeBSD and NetBSD.