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Ask HN: Would it be feasible to build an open source mobile OS based on XNU?
Isn't most of the goodness of iOS (like sandboxing) included within XNU/Darwin?
As far as I can gather, the "iOS" portion is just a collection of drivers and UI frameworks that could be re-implemented in open source.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoBuilding a mobile OS with sandboxing is not hard. Building an app ecosystem that has the apps people expect to be able to use your mobile OS is extremely hard.
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- sigjuice 8y agoThis would not be realistic. XNU is a tiny fraction of iOS. Also, Apple does not publish the version of XNU that makes up iOS.