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Really great work by the OpenMandriva team. I've spoken to some of their contributors before and even looked into one of the bugs they reported. Now that I think about it, I need to send that patch for fixing asm goto detection in glib.

Android and ChromeOS are also built with Clang. I'm curious about the distinction of "first." Does anyone know the timelines here?

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Not sure how wide Apple has adopted it or how much of a 'distro' you could call their operating systems, but much is built using LLVM with clang where publicly visible.

Also, to be pedantic, apple is a BSD, not a linux.

Mac OS is its own operating system with its own kernel. It's neither Linux nor BSD.

oh good point, TIL only the posix and syscall layer is BSD. nonetheless it's not at all a linux.

If you want to see how much different they are, have a look at

"Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach"

https://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-Internals-Systems-Approach-ebo...

Since then, has macOS become even further away from BSD, with its own Network stack, XPC, SIP and many other architecture changes.

It’s a certified UNIX, which Linux & BSD are clones of (UNIX).

this is taking the post USL vs BSD legalized definition of unix, which, w/r/t history, is revisionist.

following the lineage and where active development happened at the time (80s/early 90s), one can easily make the case that BSD is unix.

To be pedantic, Apple is a company, not an OS :)

To be pedantic, the comment you replied to referred to apple which is neither a company nor an OS but a fruit.

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