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	by LoganDark 42 days ago
	FreeBSD is not a distro. It's not even Linux; it's a completely different kernel and operating system that traces back to even before Linux. It's honestly closer to Darwin than it is to Linux; macOS is technically a BSD. (Not FreeBSD though.)

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Darwin is its own thing really. There are parts from BSD, there are also parts from Mach and there are also unique parts.

Of course. Linux does not share any heritage with BSD though.

Except that they are both based on Unix and (generally) made to run on x86 processors. Which is a pretty big similarity

Linux is not based on Unix. AFAIK it was inspired by Unix, but does not actually share anything.

And BSD is UNIX, at least technically.