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rayineryesterday at 6:07 PM1 replyview on HN

> is. Or why being "certified UNIX" is generally meaningless: see the BSDs, which are much closer to "UNIX" origins than macOS will ever be

MacOS is BSD over Mach, which is itself derived from BSD.


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p_ingyesterday at 6:16 PM

Yes, that's the point. It's further removed from UNIX than the BSDs are.

macOS contains BSD userland, networking, file system, POSIX, and a couple of other things. But XNU, the kernel, is "X is Not UNIX", if there ever was a statement to be made about the underpinnings of macOS.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...

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