Inside EuroBSDCon 2004 (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Nov 26, 2004 15:07 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Inside EuroBSDCon 2004 (O'ReillyNet) by hppnq
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I also find it a bit annoying how some BSD boosters, not just Hubbard, use Apple OS-X to "prove" that BSD is more popular on desktops than Linux. After all, from the point of view of users and developers, OS-X is merely another proprietary Unix variant with a proprietary GUI layer, and therefore in a completely different category from Linux, FreeBSD and other free OS'es.

It is also a quite different fork of BSD in that it sits on top of a microkernel, and therefore it has more trouble benefiting from, or contributing to "mainstream" BSD systems.