Beyond that, Mac OS X and Ubuntu are cousins, Mac OS X being based off of FreeBSD/BSD, and Ubuntu being Linux based, which are two separate branches off of UNIX.

Is macOS based on Unix or Linux?

macOS is a UNIX 03-compliant operating system certified by The Open Group. It has been since 2007, starting with MAC OS X 10.5. The only exception was Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, but compliance was regained with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Amusingly, just as GNU stands for “GNU’s Not Unix,” XNU stands for “X is Not Unix.”

Which Linux is best for Mac?

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