Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 08:21:08 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <C56715D3-73B6-472D-A4F7-93125CBD1EFC@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20200608050415.GA92414@geeks.org> References: <171506d5-19aa-359e-c21d-f07257c52ebd@freenetMail.de> <20200608051434.ca70e5c5.freebsd@edvax.de> <f1613992-e3a4-6bb0-48ea-f729b758b315@freenetMail.de> <20200608050415.GA92414@geeks.org>
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> On Jun 8, 2020, at 12:04 AM, Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 12:08:13PM +0800, Wesley wrote: >> On 2020/6/8 上午 11:14, Polytropon wrote: >>> In an attempt to summarize, all the BSDs can be >>> used for almost everything - from embedded, to laptops, desktops, >>> servers, and "combined forms". In reality, you_will_ find BSDs >>> in all those places, and you will also find them in places where >>> you don't know there is a BSD running, for example in routers, >>> managed switches, NAS, WLAN APs, firewall and other networking >>> appliances. They are also used as development platforms for a >>> lot of other systems. >> >> And, do you know if there is a mobile OS powered by BSD? > > Not per-se, but Apple took many parts of BSD > into Darwin, which forms the basis of iOS for all their devices. > > Ie. https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-6153.81.5/bsd/ > > So you could say a bit of BSD is in quite a lot of mobile devices. MacOS departs farther and farther away from BSD… so some time ago I scratched MacOS from my list of “UNIXes”. Administering server on MacOS became unbearable for me. I still tell all Mac laptop owners: the beauty of MacOS is that you have nice GUI, and UNIX under the hood. Disclaimer: majority of systems I have in my list of UNIXes strictly speaking can not be called UNIX, as they do not pay loyalties for that name to AT&T. Valeri
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