But I agree that it is great to have a whole collection of OS variants to choose from. Having used AIX and HPUX in the past, I’m happy to be able to not need to do that anymore.
macOS is not really BSD. It uses a Mach-like kernel with some of FreeBSD and OpenBSD in its userland. However, given that Linux and some versions of Windows also use BSD code in their network stacks, it should be obvious that “it uses BSD code” is not the same thing as “it is BSD”.
I hate to break it to you, but macOS is bsd.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix#/media/File:Unix_history-simple.svg
But I agree that it is great to have a whole collection of OS variants to choose from. Having used AIX and HPUX in the past, I’m happy to be able to not need to do that anymore.
macOS is not really BSD. It uses a Mach-like kernel with some of FreeBSD and OpenBSD in its userland. However, given that Linux and some versions of Windows also use BSD code in their network stacks, it should be obvious that “it uses BSD code” is not the same thing as “it is BSD”.
$ rg -li bsd /usr 2>/dev/null | wc -l 1035https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
But sure, it’s not a true
Scotsmanbsd.If it is “a BSD”, Windows is a BSD too.