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The MacOS userland tools were taken from FreeBSD, along with a bunch of other stuff, but saying it was 'based on FreeBSD' is a bit of a stretch.
by talideon 7y ago
The MacOS userland tools were taken from FreeBSD, along with a bunch of other stuff, but saying it was 'based on FreeBSD' is a bit of a stretch.
- alwillis 7y agoUntil the last few releases, macOS also used IPFW, the firewall explicitly created for FreeBSD, so there was more FreeBSD in macOS than just userland tools.
- talideon 7y agoSure, and that's why I wrote 'along with a bunch of other stuff'. Writing something like 'MacOS is based on FreeBSD' implies a situation more like Sony's OrbisOS, which isn't the case with MacOS.
- xenadu02 7y agoNextStep pulled from Berkley BSD, so some of that lineage is still around. Darwin has pulled from both NetBSD and FreeBSD, themselves derivatives from the Berkley distribution.
- IntelMiner 7y agoAncillary devices like the old Airport routers also used NetBSD
- talideon 7y agoA shared lineage is a very different thing, however.