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		nwellnhof on Aug 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Inf... There's also a lot of FreeBSD code in Apple OSes.

cpach on Aug 27, 2024 [–]

There is! I wonder how much new *BSD code Apple has imported the past ~5 years or so. Does anyone know?

nwellnhof on Aug 28, 2024 | [–]

The code can be found here: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions

One example I'm aware of is that they switched from GNU libiconv to FreeBSD libiconv in macOS 14.

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