Article: NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD

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Article by *STEP friendly Liam Proven at The Register about NextBSD:

»The main man behind the revival is Joe Maloney, known on GitHub as pkgdemon. In case his name rings a bell, we've mentioned him before: he put together the Gershwin desktop in GhostBSD. Soon after we covered Gershwin on GhostBSD, he asked the maintainers if he could take over the NextBSD project. He did have a relatively minor role in the original – you can see his list of commits.
The original NextBSD project was started by FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard in 2015 – its Wikipedia article has some of the history. The plan was to port some of the components of Apple's Darwin OS to FreeBSD. Darwin is the Unix foundation on which macOS and Apple's other OSes are built: it's open source and the code can be pulled direct from GitHub. Some of the initial goals are explained in this presentation from the original team.«

Full text available at https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/18/nextbsd-returns-to-dollop-apple-source-on-freebsd/5273788