I’m running two VMs on my M1 MacBook Air. An x86_64 FreeBSD and x86_64 LureOS (illuria‘s OS), both are emulated.
and yet, somehow, according to macOS, my browser is Using Significant Energy.
To be honest, I believe macOS, but the real question is, how did we get to a place where a piece of software is consuming more power than a complete Operating System?
According to the 2018 edition of The Open Group Base Specifications (Issue 7), there’s a command named command which executes commands.
Wait, macOS is OpenGroup UNIX 03 certified, right?
command running uname -aI tried tracing back the history, macOS is mostly based on FreeBSD, as we can see in their open-source code.
So I started tracing back the FreeBSD code, and I found the current one.
I found the oldest commit about command in FreeBSD’s source tree, but it said
Import the 4.4BSD-Lite2 /bin/sh sources
builtins.def
So I opened up the SVN tree of CSRG, and there I found this
date and time created 91/03/07 20:24:04 by bostic
builtins.def
However, if I knew how to use SVNWeb, I’m pretty sure I’d navigate around the /old/sh directory.
It’s funny, how this line# NOTE: bltincmd must come first!
Is both in the macOS code AND the CSRG code from 30 years ago.
That’s all folks…
I don’t know if it’s YouTube that chose this thumbnail or if it was someone from BSDCan, but I’ve gotta say, I love it! xD
But in all seriousness, you can find my talk “Own The Stack: FreeBSD from a Vendor’s Perspective by Antranig Vartanian (ft. Faraz Vahedi)” on YouTube.
There’s a whole playlist, with each talk more interesting than the other.
Looks like I know what I will be doing this weekend ☺️