FreeBSD is an amazing operating system

Re:FreeBSD is an amazing operating system by icodestuff on Monday January 20, 2020 @07:18PM (#22103202)

This is about right, and it's changed to be more this way over time. Early versions of OS X had user lands which were more BSD-like than they are now (and optional! Used to be you had to install the "BSD Subsystem" package from your install CD if you wanted to get a proper POSIX environment). For instance, early versions used BSD init, but that was replaced with launchd.

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Re:FreeBSD is an amazing operating system by danieldk on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @02:25AM (#22104958)

Early versions of OS X had user lands which were more BSD-like than they are now

They still have a lot of userland BSD parts. Including the very broken grep from FreeBSD (which is fixed in FreeBSD now IIRC):

    $ echo "abcdef" | /usr/bin/grep -o "^..."
    abc
    def

(I have to use the full path to grep, because I replace macOS grep by GNU grep.)

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Re:FreeBSD is an amazing operating system by JdeBP on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:25AM (#22105437)

People really should complain to Apple about this.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/398249/5132

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