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by steve1977 42 days ago
Darwin is its own thing really. There are parts from BSD, there are also parts from Mach and there are also unique parts.
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LoganDark 41 days ago
Of course. Linux does not share any heritage with BSD though.
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Melatonic 41 days ago
Except that they are both based on Unix and (generally) made to run on x86 processors. Which is a pretty big similarity
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LoganDark 41 days ago
Linux is not based on Unix. AFAIK it was inspired by Unix, but does not actually share anything.
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steve1977 38 days ago
And BSD is UNIX, at least technically.
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