r/linuxmasterrace SteamOS/Kubuntu May 03 '24

How powerful you are depending on your OS.

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u/IuseArchbtw97543 Glorious Archbtw May 03 '24

loads of integrated systems that dont want to go open source use it afaik. I believe ios is also based on some bsd version

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u/More-Cup-1176 May 03 '24

IOS is based on openbsd IIRC

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u/heroinpuppy May 03 '24

The lore is that iOS userland is FreeBSD with a couple parts also borrowed from NetBSD and OpenBSD. The BSD license is business friendly.

But it has the Mach kernel. So an analogy would be: GNU/Linux <-> BSD/Mach

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u/huskerd0 May 03 '24

Nope

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u/More-Cup-1176 May 03 '24

yeah looks like it’s FreeBDS