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>It's actually a NeXTSTEP fork with FreeBSD code integrated in. Sure, but NextStep itself belongs to the BSD family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(ope
by jaclaz 9y ago
>It's actually a NeXTSTEP fork with FreeBSD code integrated in.
Sure, but NextStep itself belongs to the BSD family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_timeline.en.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_timeline.en.svg
Anyway, the accent in my previous post was more on the non-Linux nature of the MacOS.
- bitwize 9y agoThen say "Mac OS X belongs to the BSD family". Don't call it a fork of FreeBSD.
- giancarlostoro 9y agoReasonably derived from FreeBSD I suppose. It's obvious to most that they made their own components on top of the work already done on FreeBSD, in some versions they've done updates to Darwin to match more current FreeBSD versions (guessing core components / kernel), not sure if they bother anymore as much though.
- jaclaz 9y agoIt is actually more complicated than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history#/media/File:Unix_history-simple.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history#/media/F... There is a "base" of MACH/NextStep that is partially based on "original" BSD and then there are some parts added later coming from both FreeBSD and NetBSD.