Linux is the only unix OS that gets traction
Darwin (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS)?
And I guess that technically Minix is one of the most successful Unix-like systems. [1]
Darwin (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS)?
And I guess that technically Minix is one of the most successful Unix-like systems. [1]
Those are systems for Apple to control you and their devices that you paid for, not for you to control any device that you own. Therefore, the only traction they've really gotten is with one single user - Apple.
> macOS
For now.
(Relax everybody, I'm at least half kidding.)
You can't change much about how MacOS works under the hood anymore. If you don't like how it works, tough.
The device and OS are not yours.
Also why no one could pay me enough to rely on Apple hardware or software at this point for anything but entertainment.
On top of that, the unix userland resembles FreeBSD, although it's pretty eclectic in choices, e.g. it ships with GNU grep and GNU make by default IIRC while I think FreeBSD uses BSD grep and make by default?
(Darwin is pretty eclectic overall -- some portions are more NetBSDish. Kernel is mostly Free I think)
IME, most of the basic shell commands are either directly from FreeBSD or a project in the BSD universe. For example tar is from libarchive, a distinct project (see https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive) that DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and macOS import and track. (But oddly not OpenBSD, which has evolved the 4.4BSD-Lite implementation.)
According to a 2012 accounting at http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990), macOS was down to 16 GPL packages in macOS 10.12 from 47 in macOS 10.5.
Yep, it still is. On Big Sur on M1:
$ grep --version
grep (BSD grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSDOn the other hand, it looks like (at least on Catalina?) it ships with GNU diffutils, so patch, cmp, diff are all GNU utilities. I'm going to sheepishly pretend like this proves my point somehow :-)
FreeBSD should be able to switch before 13.0, but the bsdgrep developer is a slacker. It's only missing a couple of GNU extensions that are somewhat surprisingly (to me) common.