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Darwin, Apple's OS, is open source.
by new_realist 5y ago
Darwin, Apple's OS, is open source.
- snazz 5y agoCalling it an OS is a bit generous—although XNU is open-source, actually getting it running on hardware from just the publicly released parts is not particularly feasible. PureDarwin exists, but it's mostly just a curiosity to run in QEMU at this point.
- makeitdouble 5y agoIt is, but it's also a complicated story that doesn't seem to go well. Basically past honeymoon period, the open source part of the project just was increasingly left on the side of the road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
- webmobdev 5y agoSince macOS is / was a port of xBSD, how much difference is there between Darwin and xBSD kernel?
- bch 5y agoThe userland was largely BSD, but the Mac kernel was a Mach kernel w a BSD shim for syscalls, iiuc.
- heavyset_go 5y agoA significant part of the FreeBSD kernel was used in XNU.
- lrvick 5y agoAnd yet it is not possible to run a single MacOS targeted GUI application on it without many proprietary components on top.