Eh, sorry. I got excited at the prospect of downloading FreeBSD from the App Store and having the installer "just work" in a modern GUI. You have to admit, FreeBSD is lacking in this area. It would be a boon. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> wrote: > Vance Siemens <vance.siemens_at_gmail.com> writes: >> Can you share a brief overview of what's wrong with it? > > Umm, it's about as factual as The Onion, except not as funny. FreeBSD > never had to "jettison two thirds of its code base and start from > scratch". Apple is not involved in FreeBSD development. No Mac OS X or > Darwin version "includes" FreeBSD. FreeBSD and Mac OS X will never > merge. FreeBSD was never acquired by WinDriver Systems or by anyone > else, although a company named WindRiver Systems (makers of the embedded > operating system VxWorks, not of Windows video drivers) did at one point > acquire BSDI, which had previously acquired Walnut Creek CD-ROM, which > was heavily involved in the early history of both FreeBSD and Slackware > Linux. The remains of Walnut Creek CD-ROM and BSDI are now known as > FreeBSD Mall and iXsystems (of PC-BSD and FreeNAS fame). > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Thu May 17 2012 - 21:20:19 UTC
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