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I thought the (current) macOS userland was from NetBSD, not FreeBSD?
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
I thought the (current) macOS userland was from NetBSD, not FreeBSD?
- grahamlee 6y agoNo, NetBSD claim that (https://netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin https://netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin) but if it was ever true that was a long time ago. Apple synced up with the FreeBSD userland some time toward the end of the first decade of the millennium. They hired FreeBSD’s Jordan K Hubbard (jkh@) as their director of Unix engineering at the time.
- bluedino 6y agoThey hired a bunch of FreeBSD secs around that time didn’t they?
- tomxor 6y agoI had read quite some years ago now that Apple made use of NetBSD as a starting point each time they needed to port to a new architecture (you know how they saying goes), but ultimately it's the FreeBSD userland and XNU kernel that remains... albeit very outdated userland these days - maybe that's why they don't donate much, they only have FreeBSD from >12 years ago. It's always a PITA giving bash scripts to mac users.