1. |
It was developed and is owned by Apple Incorporation. |
It was developed and is owned by The NetBSD Foundation. |
2. |
It was launched in 2001. |
It was launched in 1993. |
3. |
Its target system types are workstation, personal computers and embedded systems. |
Its target system types are NAS, server, workstation and embedded systems. |
4. |
Computer architectures supported by macOS are x86-64(10.4.7-present), IA-32(10.4.4-10.6.8) and PowerPC(10.0-10.5.8). |
Computer architectures supported by NetBSD are IA-32, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and sparc64. |
5. |
Its kernel type is Hybrid with modules. |
Its kernel type is Monolithic with modules. |
6. |
Its package management is macOS installer. |
Its package management is pkgsrc. |
7. |
Its update management is Software Update. |
Its update management is by source or by binary. |
8. |
Its native APIs are Carbon, Cocoa, Java and BSD-POSIX. |
Its native APIs are BSD-POSIX. |
9. |
It has preferred license of Proprietary, APSL and GNU GPL. |
It has preferred license of BSD. |
10. |
The non-native APIs supported by its subsystems are Toolbox, Win16 and Win32. |
The non-native APIs supported through its subsystems are Linux and others. |
11. |
File systems supported by macOS are HFS+, APFS, HFS, UFS, AFP, ISO 9660, FAT, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS, FTP, WebDAV and ZFS. |
File systems supported by NetBSD are UFS, UFS2, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, NFS and LFS. |