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Not sure I understand, Mac OS is BSD based. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

by Eggpants 10mo ago

bigyabai 10mo ago
macOS is XNU-based. There is BSD code that runs in the microkernel level and BSD tools in the userland, but the kernel does not resemble BSD's architecture or adopt BSD's license. This is an issue for some industry-standard software like CUDA, which does provide BSD drivers with ARM support that just never get adopted by Apple: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/
- 7e 10mo ago
  If there were TCO advantages with this setup, CUDA would not be a blocker.
  - bigyabai 10mo ago
    CUDA's just one example; there's a lot of hardware support on the BSDs that Apple doesn't want to inherit.
    - ngcc_hk 10mo ago
      Why maint other and have baggage ?
      - bigyabai 10mo ago
        Because Apple already does...? There's still PowerPC and MIPS code that runs in macOS. Asking for CUDA compatibility is not somehow too hard for the trillion-dollar megacorp to handle.
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