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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-

by 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.