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Apple's OS is a fork of BSD without the fork being open source.
by rocqua 5y ago
Apple's OS is a fork of BSD without the fork being open source.
- kergonath 5y agoIt’s more complicated than that. It was not a fork, they just copied some parts of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The kernel is XNU, and descended from Mach. Also, Darwin (the base OS, which includes the BSD bits) is open source. What isn’t is the GUI on top of it, which comes from OPENSTEP.
- chalst 5y agoThe open source part of Darwin/XNU doesn't deserve to be called a "base OS" since version 6, when Apple closed the sources of a lot of drivers. There's no hardware that will boot these systems if you restrict to what is available under the APSL. https://web.archive.org/web/20091118172944/http://www.puredarwin.org/legal/binarydrivers https://web.archive.org/web/20091118172944/http://www.pureda...
- TravelPiglet 5y agohttps://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu