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Until 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.
by alwillis 7y ago
Until 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.