Tag: Heritage

  • Apple’s Open Source Roots: The BSD Heritage Behind macOS and iOS

    Apple’s Open Source Roots: The BSD Heritage Behind macOS and iOS

    Consider this: Apple’s stylish and user-friendly devices, like the powerful MacBook and the ubiquitous iPhone, owe much of their reliability and performance to an open source operating system. But which open source OS do they use? Although it’s often claimed that Apple’s macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS and tvOS are directly descended from FreeBSD, this…