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I was wondering about that; didn't realize it was NeXT. A friend of mine still has his original NeXT box for the short time he worked on it.

I was also surprised at the origins of DarwinBSD. I never really looked up the history and didn't realize it forked some of the code off FreeBSD.

It's interesting to note that the PS4 OS is also a forked FreeBSD variant as well.

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`It's interesting to note that the PS4 OS is also a forked FreeBSD variant as well.`

Here's a nice talk at CCC last year which explains some bits of FreeBSD in the PS4. It's mostly about hardware and how to run Linux on it, but FreeBSD gets a nice mention there too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMiubC6LdTA

Jordon Hubbard even worked at Apple for a bit.

Kinda funny watching him getting rebuffed when trying to convince FreeBSD to adopt Launchd.

Sometimes i wish the same kind of attitude towards stability would be a prevalent in the Linux world, rather than the magpie like chase of shinies.

Switch also forked

Nah, it turns out the switch is using an OS derived from their custom, proprietary 3DS OS.

They run the FreeBSD network stack in another process in user land, hence the copyright claim.

Still haven't seen anything showing this, including the license for the FreeBSD kernel can mean a lot of different things. Windows did/does ship with it, I wouldn't call it a fork.

If you mean the TCP/IP stack it was re-written from scratch on Vista.

As is the Nintendo Switch.

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