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NextBSD Revived With Apple Darwin Components and AI Coding
The NextBSD project has been revived under a new maintainer, incorporating Apple's Darwin open-source components and the Gershwin kernel. It also uses Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool to assist with development. The project aims to blend FreeBSD with Apple-derived technologies.
Meridian48 take
This revival is a niche but interesting experiment in mixing open-source BSD with Apple's kernel code, though its practical impact on mainstream OS development remains unclear.
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