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OS X and Linux never shared a common parent or converged. The BSD heritage is what makes it Unixy. BSD has been oil to Linux's water for a long time.
by rsanders 15y ago
OS X and Linux never shared a common parent or converged. The BSD heritage is what makes it Unixy. BSD has been oil to Linux's water for a long time.
- diminish 15y agoFor Linux and OS/X, noone said they share common parent; the shared common tools such as bash, samba and a lot of stuff removed as mentioned by this article will create diverging ecosystems (and before replying watch out, noone says diverging kernels).
- X-Istence 15y agoYou can still install those common tools if you wish. Just like on FreeBSD you don't get bash by default...