From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 12:40:58 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D75EC371 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.feld.me (mail.feld.me [66.170.3.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 925391C3 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aox.feld.me (feld.me [66.170.3.2]); by aox.feld.me (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 9b5cdb90; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:16:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from feld@feld.me by aox.feld.me (Archiveopteryx 3.2.0) with esmtpsa id 1394673387-52577-52573/5/1; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:16:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just like there are on Linux? From: Mark Felder In-Reply-To: <5320BF7E.3050106@tundraware.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:16:24 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <1d8501cf3e17$d83e5f90$88bb1eb0$@FreeBSD.org> <5320BF7E.3050106@tundraware.com> To: Tim Daneliuk X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) Sender: feld@feld.me Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:40:58 -0000 On Mar 12, 2014, at 15:11, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > OTOH, OSX isn't really BSD any more (to the extent it ever was). It's = best > described - I think - as "derived from FreeBSD" because they've = changed things > like filesystem case sensitivity, they us HPFS instead of FFS/UFS/XFS, = the > filesystem layout is different, and so forth. They've also added a = bunch > of Apple-specific APIs. Tons of unix utilities pulled from FreeBSD/NetBSD, pf from OpenBSD. com.apple.kpi.bsd -- BSD APIs I know the 4.4BSD network stack still lives on in there somewhere, and = Adrian can probably speak to Apple taking an early version of the 802.11 = network code from FreeBSD I'd probably call it a bizarre frankenstein fork more than anything