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I think it is sadly not true for the Nintendo Switch [1], so it seems that it is still mainly Apple’s macOS and Sony’s PlayStation 3 and 4 [2,3] (could not find any hard facts on the PlayStation 5, but it is still early days).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_system_software

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbis_OS

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Ah, thanks for helping remove my apparently common misconception. Thanks!

macOS and its derivatives are not a BSD.

Reality is more complex than that:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths#FreeBSD_is_Just_macOS_Without...

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...

You have also had patches go from Apple straight into the FreeBSD tree with improvements they made on their side. So, yes, it certainly is not as easy a case as one would make for Sony’s forks, but the answer is certainly not a resounding “no”.

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