Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:16:24 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just like there are on Linux? Message-ID: <F255E059-1837-466A-9272-EC19AF8AC733@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5320BF7E.3050106@tundraware.com> References: <COL127-W1547F43A4D7DD207ACCB44E8760@phx.gbl> <1d8501cf3e17$d83e5f90$88bb1eb0$@FreeBSD.org> <D91DE25A-DC4F-4CA3-BD4C-6BE85F886469@shire.net> <5320BF7E.3050106@tundraware.com>
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On Mar 12, 2014, at 15:11, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote: > OTOH, OSX isn't really BSD any more (to the extent it ever was). It's = best > described - I think - as "derived from FreeBSD" because they've = changed things > like filesystem case sensitivity, they us HPFS instead of FFS/UFS/XFS, = the > filesystem layout is different, and so forth. They've also added a = bunch > of Apple-specific APIs. Tons of unix utilities pulled from FreeBSD/NetBSD, pf from OpenBSD. com.apple.kpi.bsd -- BSD APIs I know the 4.4BSD network stack still lives on in there somewhere, and = Adrian can probably speak to Apple taking an early version of the 802.11 = network code from FreeBSD I'd probably call it a bizarre frankenstein fork more than anything
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