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The Nintendo Switch and Sony PS3/PS4/PS5 operating systems are also derived from FreeBSD.

• ninjin 3y ago
  I think it is sadly not true for the Nintendo Switch [1], so it seems that it is still mainly Apple’s macOS and Sony’s PlayStation 3 and 4 [2,3] (could not find any hard facts on the PlayStation 5, but it is still early days). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_software#Open_source_components https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_system_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_system_software [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbis_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbis_OS
  • accrual 3y ago
    Ah, thanks for helping remove my apparently common misconception. Thanks!
  • tpush 3y ago
    macOS and its derivatives are not a BSD.
    • ninjin 3y ago
      Reality is more complex than that: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths#FreeBSD_is_Just_macOS_Without_the_Good_Bits https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths#FreeBSD_is_Just_macOS_Without... https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/BSD/BSD.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da... You have also had patches go from Apple straight into the FreeBSD tree with improvements they made on their side. So, yes, it certainly is not as easy a case as one would make for Sony’s forks, but the answer is certainly not a resounding “no”.