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This is 'Hacker News'. That question shouldn't need to be asked! I think it's pretty cool, but then, I still have QNX 4 on a floppy disk. ChromeOS is a bit mor

This is 'Hacker News'. That question shouldn't need to be asked! I think it's pretty cool, but then, I still have QNX 4 on a floppy disk. ChromeOS is a bit more open than Apple's system, isn't it? That's not a rhetorical question, I actually don't know.

cryptoz 16y ago
Chromium OS is fully open source. Chrome OS is the closed, Google-compiled version that will arrive on physical machines. As far as I know, iOS is fully closed-source. So yes, Chromium OS is much more open than iOS.
- snippyhollow 16y ago
  iOS is based on Darwin/XNU. These are all the upper layers that are closed-source.
  - 1amzave 16y ago
    If I'm remembering correctly, the ARM port of XNU is not open-source though.
    - Xuzz 16y ago
      It's not very different.
- Xuzz 16y ago
  Have you checked out http://opensource.apple.com/ http://opensource.apple.com/? A significant portion of iOS is open-source, pretty much everything is open below the UI layer.