Rethinking the desktop with reference to Apple s early UI guidelines
Tim Anderson Fri 12 Feb 2021 // 10:29 UTC Share
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Updated A pre-alpha project to make a new FreeBSD-based desktop operating system has adopted a minimalist design intended to appeal to Mac defectors.
FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system first released in 1993 based on the Berkeley Software Distribution. The core of Apple s macOS, called Darwin, uses some code from FreeBSD. Despite its high quality, running FreeBSD as a desktop operating system has some challenges, mainly because it is less well supported by third-party vendors than Linux, which in turn is not as well supported as Windows.