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Given shared heritage, I would expect to see Apple work with FreeBSD before I would expect Apple to work with Linux.
by ryao 2y ago
Given shared heritage, I would expect to see Apple work with FreeBSD before I would expect Apple to work with Linux.
- stego-tech 2y agoYou are technically correct (the best kind of correct). I’m just a filthy heathen who lumps the BSDs and Linux distros under “Linux” as an incredibly incorrect catchall for casual discourse.
- hedora 2y agoI heard OpenBSD has been working for a while. I’m continually surprised Apple doesn’t just donate something like 0.1% of their software development budget to proton and the asahi projects. It’d give them a big chunk of the gaming and server markets pretty much overnight. I guess they’re too busy adding dark patterns that re-enable siri and apple intelligence instead.
- ryao 2y agoThe server markets want ECC and Apple has largely stopped shipping ECC. I don’t recall seeing any assurances that the ARM Mac Pro had ECC.
- barryrandall 2y agoSure, but FreeBSD also has a Linux compatability layer. For a company that's given up on the server market so many times, making MacOS compatible with _THE_ server OS makes a lot of sense.