On 14/4/20 3:00 am, Richard Day wrote: > I had another look at BSD. > > Yes, lord only knows how you would convince the beagle to boot and root > into that. > > Is this the thing the basis of what now runs on Apple Mac's?
I think Andrew gave a pretty in depth run-down, but yes, Apple MacOS X is a distant BSD fork, as are a lot of "Unix" platforms (Solaris comes to mind). > What would you use that for? I would miss the Linux/drivers folder too > much. Every OS has its pluses and minuses. I personally use OpenBSD a lot on various devices for router tasks. Embedded Linux is my go-to for esoteric applications, but many of the BSD derivatives out there, FreeBSD and OpenBSD included, are open-source, so it's possible to dig into those just as much as you can on Linux. For some applications, BSD may be ideal since the license is very liberal: if you are developing some application where you want to keep the sources to yourself, you're legally allowed to under the modern BSD license. Under the GPLv2, you're obliged to provide the sources to anyone you ship derived binaries to if they ask for them. > Are you stuck indoors as well? I will be here until June. I might as well > learn BSD as well. I think most of the world is stuck indoors. Easter long week-end, glorious weather, all national parks and caravan parks closed… and stay-home orders by order of our Chief Medical Officer. Sounds like Murphy's law! -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/b2c84f46-7459-0df5-90cc-2bd2b8ba9c65%40longlandclan.id.au.
