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Probably for custom networking or storage hardware. Apple is a major high tech corporation, and what OS runs their data centers? (Not MacOS)

• digi_owl 9y ago
  Yeah my first thought went to some new version of their Time Capsule product.
• derefr 9y ago
  NetBSD, IIRC. (Which you might say is the "upstream" of Apple's Darwin in about the same way that Debian is the upstream of Ubuntu.)
  • riffraff 9y ago
    Don't you mean freebsd?
    • derefr 9y ago
      Nope: https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin
      • jsnell 9y ago
        That link does not say Apple is using NetBSD in the datacenter. It says that some of the userland tools in OS X come from NetBSD.
        • derefr 9y ago
          My response was just to counter the common misapprehension that macOS itself is built on a FreeBSD userland. It's NetBSD, and devices like the AirPort Extreme/Time Capsule use NetBSD directly. And, back when the iTunes Store was a WebObjects service, it was hosted on Xserves running a weird reverse-Darwin (i.e. a Darwin-shimmed userland atop a NetBSD kernel, because macOS itself wasn't yet performant enough to be a good server but they still needed WebObjects to run.) These days, Apple's datacenters are running all sorts of things, including Darwin, Linux, Solaris, and AIX[1]. But the "Darwin" part is still essentially NetBSD, not FreeBSD. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/tale-of-two-data-center-strategies-apple-vs-facebook/?tag=content;siu-container http://www.zdnet.com/article/tale-of-two-data-center-strateg...
          • 2trill2spill 9y ago
            > My response was just to counter the common misapprehension that macOS itself is built on a FreeBSD userland. I don't think most people say that macOS is built on top of a FreeBSD userland. Most people rightly point out that there is a lot of FreeBSD code inside the macOS code base specifically the XNU kernel[1]. > But the "Darwin" part is still essentially NetBSD, not FreeBSD. That's incorrect while there is NetBSD code in MacOS. Dismissing the FreeBSD code, the Mach code, the code Apple wrote and saying that Darwin is essentially NetBSD is extremely disingenuous[2]. [1]: https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=freebsd&type= https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=... [2]: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/BSD/BSD.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Da...
• crowbahr 9y ago
  IIRC some of their cloud storage is Google Cloud as well. They're probably pushing into more vertical control there. Good guess.