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Most BSDs aren't running stuff like Bonjour which increases exposure to the network.
Bonjour is just Apple's name for zero config networking which most Linux and BSD distributions do support to various degrees.
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EFI is not exclusive to Macs. It was developed by Intel and has been deprecated in favor of UEFI. Most UEFI images will have legacy support for BIOS services. There is basically no difference between a modern Mac and a PC - except for Mac OS X, which can be run on "Hackintoshes".
> EFI is not exclusive to Macs. Which is beside the pedantic point, that to be an "IBM PC compatible" you have to NOT run EFI.
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I was under the impression that since Macs went over to x86, they were capable of running Windows. They are IBM PC compatible.
I think the only difference now is that Macs use EFI boot, and not BIOS boot and hence will only boot software with a EFI-boot compatible bootloader. Once you get past that step a Mac works exactly like a "PC". Just like a "PC" works exactly like a Mac if you fake the EFI-boot via a custom BIOS-to-EFI bootloader on a USB-stick.
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> EFI is not exclusive to Macs. Which is beside the pedantic point, that to be an "IBM PC compatible" you have to NOT run EFI.
And yet the PC clone market as a whole appears to be moving over to EFI
I never said that PCs are called PCs because they ARE IBM PC compatible, only said they are called PCs because in the past "IBM PC compatible" defined their category.