Sony's PlayStation 4 Is Running Modified FreeBSD 9

[Ssenkahdavic]

ethomaz said:

Ssenkahdavic said:

More to the point OSX is based on NetBSD and like you said, it like freeBSD are just distributions.

 

Apple's Darwin (top)

NetBSD is used by Apple for a large portion of the user-space commands and tools in their Darwin project, and Darwin is the UNIX-based core used by Mac OS X. NetBSD source tends to pay attention to issues of portability and correctness, and is virtually all BSD licenced, which avoids commercial problems with the GNU General Public Licence. At least one of the Apple developers has access to the NetBSD source tree and has fed back some useful changes.

It is like they wrote in that part... BSD is flexibe for commercial companies... you can decide what part of code you share with the community and what not... you can mix... not all closed like Windows and not all opened like Linux.

So companies like Apple, Sony, etc will always uses BSD over Linux.

Exactly.  I think the thing people do not get is Linux is basically just a "Flavor" of Unix and so is BSD.  Very similar if you have used one of the bunch ( I have put a great deal of time into using OpenBSD/AIX/Linux and for the most part if you can use one you can use the other).

And if interested here is the list of Unix "Flavors"

 

Edit: Meant OpenBSD not NetBSD