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    submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 112 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    macOS is the bastard evil child given for adoption that no one in the family will ever acknowledge.

    [–] TootSweet 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So Wario, then? Maybe that makes Android Waluigi.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

    I'd say it's more like Toad. Overly simplified, weirdly smooth and shiny.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

    If macos is Wario, surely iOS is waluigi?

    [–] eatstorming 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Also, macOS is derived from FreeBSD.

    [–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    It's derived from BSD 4.3, which predates and is one of the ancestors of FreeBSD

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Parts of it are. The kernel is derived from a Mach microkernel (an experimental kernel in the 80s, which was theoretically supposed to allow different OS personalities to coexist in the same system, sharing resources; macOS’ Darwin/XNU kernel doesn’t implement this capability in full, but you do get the Mach Ports interprocess communication mechanism, and a BSD UNIX personality permanently attached).

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

    Yes, and the FreeBSD kernel is also derived from it, but they both formed out of that. One to form NeXT mach and the other Net, which forked to NetBSD and FreeBSD. But macOS Mach isn't derived from the FreeBSD fork.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    It's also the only desktop OS that's actually Unix. MacOS gets official Unix certification with every major release. All other "Unixy" OSes are just "Unix-like".

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

    Meh. It's a nice bragging right, but that's all it is at this point. Linux killed off almost all the old Unix vendors for a reason.