@johnpoz said in how to connect pfsense to Wi-Fi?:
NeXTSTEP ;) which was based on the Mach (kernel), and sure had some source from unix BSD.. You seem to imply that it is freebsd derived from that statement.. ;)
The history of Unix is really messed up. I saw a diagram of the various Unix lineage and it was a real pile of spaghetti. This is due to the origins at AT&T and how they distributed it to colleges etc. for little more than the cost of a tape & shipping. One result was that everyone was borrowing from everyone, at least until SCO started claiming the others were stealing from them, including IBM's JFS, which was originally developed for OS/2 and ported to AIX. Since AIX was IBM's version of Unix, anything on it, including JFS, was "owned" by SCO.
The various BSDs evolved from the original Berkeley Software Division (BSD), which in turn started from what AT&T had provided. Sun also did a lot of development, based on BSD.
It's curious how just about the entire world, other than desktops, runs on some *nix version and most of that is now Linux, all the way from smart watches to the big supercomputers. One of my cousins is a nuclear physicist (he works with neutrinos) and runs Red Hat Linux on both his own notebook computer and on the supercomputer he uses in his work.
Even that helicopter on Mars runs Linux.