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Workingmac.com Interview With Jordan Hubbard

Posted by timothy on from the short-and-sweetish dept.

LiquidPC writes: "workingmac.com has an interview with Jordan Hubbard (one of the founders of the FreeBSD project, and currently works for Apple on development of OS X). Questions range from 'How do open-source operating systems compare to closed-source operating systems?' to 'What does the future hold for FreeBSD?'" It's a quick interview, but a good read. Interesting that to talk about the Mac OS now is to talk about UNIX.

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  1. Sigh... by The_Messenger · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It's a quick interview, but a good read. Interesting that to talk about the Mac OS now is to talk about UNIX.

    FreeBSD is not UNIX. UNIX is a brand of systems including Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, UnixWare and several other products. See the Open Group for more details.

    FreeBSD is based upon 4.4BSD-lite, the last CSRG release, which contained no AT&T code. There is no common codebase. And, even if there were a common codebase, BSD systems are no longer considered UNIX. So FreeBSD can't even be called a UNIX-workalike; GNU/Linux fits that description better.

    But we can't expect Timothy to understand this. He's still recovering from Code Red II, which I understand affected every single unlicensed copy of Windows 2000 that OSDN/Bendover/VA Itsux/Cocksmackers is running. And that's a lot of unlicensed copies! (Hint, hint, lurking astroturfers...)

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