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It does and that's great, but it's not the root from which the system is constructed.

FreeBSD is a clone of UNIX, and all it takes is a single kernel bug for the system to break down as a whole. Yet, considering the kernel's size, it's not hard to extrapolate that there is far more than one bug.

This is not a very good architecture. In 2023, it is very far from the state of the art, and absolutely cannot be called modern.



That's probably why NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X were partly based on a mix of BSD and the Mach microkernel. Not sure of how much of that is still in current incarnations.


It is a step; with OSX we're at the 80s instead of the 70s, in operating system architecture.

OSX is still very far from modern.


I guess that applies to all mainstream operating systems


It is unfortunate, and thus the need for modern operating systems.




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