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 anythinghome | help
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