Re: apple prevented freebsd on apple hardware?

From: Ярослав Машко <yaroslaw.mashko_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:19:56 UTC
yeah,

i feel it is a right thread to do a comingput: i want freeBSD on my iphone.
i just do not know how to do it.

сб, 15 февр. 2025 г., 03:09 paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com>:

> https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon is alive.
>
> more at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=freebsd+apple+silicon&t=osx&ia=web
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 14 February 2025 at  8:32:44 +0000, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
>> > is it true that apple issued a veiled threat to freebsd to prevent
>> > a port to apple hardware?
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge, no.  FreeBSD does not run on Apple
>> hardware, because that's not our emphasis, but NetBSD does.
>>
>> I do recall some contact from Apple decades ago.  My memory is hazy,
>> but I think they were asking us not to include a port that replicated
>> Apple's GUI look and feel.  It seems that they were more generally
>> successful there, since I'm not aware of any such port any more.
>>
>> Greg
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