FOS: Stands for "Free Operating System" as an inclusive term. Includes GNU/Linux, NonGNU/Linux, *BSD that are meant to liberate ones computing.
I'll start, I use Linux Mint on my laptop that I use for work daily. It uses the latest Xanmod linux kernel and flatpaks for apps with GNU Guix providing everything else.
replies in netbsd
Seriously though, plenty of the oses that get lumped in with debian and the eff are just not. The bsd licenses for example allowed stuff like selling it unchanged with your own logo, or using a dongle or cryptographic lock to enforce your own payment schedule.
Anyway, I’m not trying to start a fight or drag a fight from a thirty year old newsgroup over here, it’s mainly a semantic point that obviously I know what you mean, but some of the stuff we both understand and accept as being in that category are explicitly not.
I also looked at the flowchart and while macos is bsd (4.4!), what I was conflating was its bsd-ness and it’s much more unique nowadays Unix 03-ness.
Per rfc827649, cheers goes here.
Good semantics argument. Honestly I was testing out this whole new FOS acronym to be more generic and a solution to "FOSS" while still having the benefit of being an easy acronym.