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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by Sunspark on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:17PM (#32337219)
For all the criticism MacOS gets, it can't be denied that it actually is a certified Unix.
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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by pjmlp on Thursday August 04, 2022 @03:02AM (#32340034)
Indeed,

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/index.html

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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by Koshkin on Thursday August 04, 2022 @09:15AM (#32342449)
But what is the importance of this - compared, say, to a popular Linux distribution? (MacOS may be more popular on the desktop, but Linux seems to be way more important in the grand scheme of things.)
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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by musicale on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:49PM (#32363299)
Being – or rather not being – Unix seems to be important enough to the GNU project that it's in their name:

GNU's Not Unix

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