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Is Mac OS X basically built on Linux?

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03/03/2022
Hathaway

Por diversas cuestiones, principalmente de licencias distintas, el S.O. Unix tuvo dos descendientes de su sistema operativo: BSD y GNU.

Por tanto, Linux y Mac OS X tienen el mismo abuelo, Unix, pero padres distintos, GNU y BSD respectivamente.

03/31/2022
Cal

No, OS X (now macOS) has no relation to Linux. It is heir to BSD UNIX and NeXTstep/OpenStep, the OS of the NeXT computers, a company acquired by Apple in '96.

Technically Linux has a monolithic structure, for a particular processor, whereas macOS uses a microkernel, which makes it more flexible for use with different types of processor (it has gone from PowerPC to Intel, and then to ARM).

05/16/2022
Featherstone Hoium

It is not, they start from different bases, OS X comes from a Unix called BSD which is not of the System V family, after many modifications and the addition of a particular and attractive graphical environment that characterises the brand, the Rhapsody project is created, which will be the basis of the first version of OSX.

Linux was created from the ideas of an operating system oriented to the teaching of operating systems called Minix, created by a university professor named Andrew S. Tanenbaum, and belongs to the System V family.

Linux was created from the ideas of an operating system oriented to the teaching of operating systems called Minix, created by a university professor named Andrew S. Tanenbaum and belongs to the System V family.

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