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This is not macOS. According to the screenshot of the latest build, it doesn't look like it even boots all the way to a shell. It is unlikely to ever help you

This is not macOS. According to the screenshot of the latest build, it doesn't look like it even boots all the way to a shell. It is unlikely to ever help you with mobile app publishing.

blauditore 9y ago
That's sad. I hoped due to their similarity, it might be possible to run Xcode and Apploader (or whatever it's called) on PureDarwin.
- skissane 9y ago
  The native macOS GUI has never been open-source. So pure open source Darwin (without any closed source Apple bits) has never been able to run native macOS GUI apps such as Xcode. Open source Darwin can only run non-GUI apps (text mode apps and daemons), and X11 GUI apps.
FlyingSnake 9y ago
From the FAQs: "PureDarwin can run on VMware as well as real Intel-based hardware. We are successfully running a web server, have built hundreds of software packages with MacPorts running on PureDarwin, including ssh, apache2, tightvnc, Xfce, and others." I personally haven't run it, but I think it's pretty usable if it can do the things mentioned above.
- hollander 9y ago
  If I would need to run Apache, SSH, VNC - why would I go this difficult road? I can install Debian, Ubuntu or Centos, with desktop if I need it, and much more support online. What does PureDarwin offer that Linux doesn't?