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iPhone too, uses FreeBSD at its lowest level ... Wait, what? Is this just a reference to OSX's BSD heritage or something that I've missed all this time?
by shaddi 16y ago
iPhone too, uses FreeBSD at its lowest level ...
Wait, what? Is this just a reference to OSX's BSD heritage or something that I've missed all this time?
- protomyth 16y agoOS X has a lot of FreeBSD code, but it isn't a OS running on top of FreeBSD.
- msbarnett 16y agoLowest level of user-land perhaps. Plus some sections of the kernel were adapted from FreeBSD, IIRC. It's close enough for tech-blog work, I suppose.
- xorglorb 16y agoOS X (and derivative iOS) are essentially proprietary GUIs put on top of a FreeBSD base system on top of a hybrid Mach/XNU kernel with a bit of FreeBSD mixed in.