From macOS to FreeBSD

Re:From macOS to FreeBSD by Spooky23 on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:18AM (#30385315)

I think that’s a feature of the BSD model. Almost every company making network appliances, etc uses BSD as a baseline, but they don’t necessarily contribute back or consistently drive development. I think the Linux model has better incentives.

The other thing is that the markets the BSD has been historically dominant are dying and consolidating. The world is cloud and cloud is mostly Linux.

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Re:From macOS to FreeBSD by anthk on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:47AM (#30386356)

Linux's cloud overcomplication will make the OS collapse into itself as Windows servers did long ago. People will switch to more simple systems.

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Re:From macOS to FreeBSD by Spooky23 on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:16AM (#30386762)

I agree, and I think you’re starting to see that with the container spins of Linux.

I’d guess that in a 10 years, somebody will ditch ancient POSIX stuff and hardware support and do something new.

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Re:From macOS to FreeBSD by pjmlp on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:33AM (#30387030)

POSIX will be still around, because UNIX compatibility, but not necessarily on top of Linux.

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Re:From macOS to FreeBSD by smm11 on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:28PM (#30389293)

Yeah, they'll switch to another cloud that obscures the layers. We don't need to re-invent the wheel, we just have to make the wheel better.

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Re:From macOS to FreeBSD by pjmlp on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:32AM (#30387005)

It is already happening with the FOSS POSIX competition on IoT platforms anyway.

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Re:From macOS to FreeBSD by satao on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:25AM (#30386024)

What do you mean by 'the Linux model'?

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Re:From macOS to FreeBSD by Spooky23 on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:11AM (#30386702)

GPL

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