Jordan Hubbard spoke recently at the Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group to discuss NextBSD, a “spork” of FreeBSD. He “covers why mach ports are extremely useful in some cases and no UNIX IPC primitive is an adequate substitute.” There’s a video of the BAFUG talk and copies of the original slide deck that goes into some detail about NextBSD.
Terrible name, too similar to NetBSD.
Funny you should say that, I went to the video expecting something on NetBSD, saw the title in the YouTube clip as “NeXTBSD” and thought it was a typo. Nope
. Does Apple still own the copyright on the NeXT moniker btw?
Doesn’t Apple own the Next trademark? I’m not sure how they’ll feel about this.
No. Apple own the NeXT trademark.
Next is just generic term that can’t be trademarked.
Why don’t you try calling a computer “Apple” to see just how much a generic term can actually be trademarked?
A generic term can absolutely be trademarked, as long as the term is generally unrelated to the product being sold. So you cannot trademark “computer” to refer to a computer product but you certainly can trademark “Banana” as a brand of computer.
Yea I thought this was about NetBSD as well.
But it looks like FreeBSD is finally officially pulling in all of the bits from the Mac.
That’s cool, the Mac bits are pretty nice.
They just don’t want to tell me about NextBSD, apparently. Kind of curious how its different from PC BSD.
The slides are also available.
This just proves that most FreeBSD developers are trying to turn it into the server counterpart of OS X. Glad I switched my server back to Debian.
And what’s wrong with that?
The core Darwin OS has some fantastic engineering in it.
It’s probably not open source enough or some other idealistic crap.
http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/08/26/0/
How are Mach messages different from SysV messages?
Ive googled a bit but can not find information about what NextBSD is. What is it? Just FreeBSD with a Mach kernel?
NeXTBSD is based on the FreeBSD-CURRENT kernel plus Mach IPC, Libdispatch, notifyd, asld, launchd, and other components from Apple’s open-source Darwin code that comprise the underpinnings of OS X. Considering how many Darwin based OSes have come & gone over the years I am torn between being curious and pessimistic.