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didn't apple take bsd and build osx on it without contributing back?

• bonch 15y ago
  No, they contributed back the open source operating system underlying OS X, called Darwin.
• openbear 15y ago
  Not sure which pieces you're talking about. Code changes to various open source projects within OS X, iOS, and Xcode can be found here (and the referenced sites therein). http://opensource.apple.com/ http://opensource.apple.com/
  • saurik 15y ago
    Those projects are often not in a state where they can be compiled, and when they are you find that they are heavily redacted. For example, none of the code required to make any of that run correctly on ARM devices is available. (Given the context from this thread about large projects, however, I feel the redactions of things like touch events from WebKit, are a more serious issue.)
    • Xuzz 15y ago
      On the other hand, for the i386 copies of FreeBSD (which the great-grandparent was talking about), Apple does release working copies of their FreeBSD-derived kernel.
      • saurik 15y ago
        Fair enough, although the parent of that post just talks in general about larger projects (such as the toolchain) and the post I directly responded to talks about Xcode.
      • pmjordan 15y ago
        The xnu kernel is pretty far from FreeBSD. It's based on CMU Mach 2.5 (mainly virtual memory and IPC), 4.3BSD (mainly networking and VFS) and the Apple/NeXTSTEP-developed device driver framework called I/O Kit (which is written in C++). I don't think any kernel changes have been merged back into BSD. At this point they've probably deviated too far anyway. Building xnu from public sources is quite an undertaking. It does still seem to be possible (although it got a lot harder with the x86 transition due to more proprietary drivers). The PureDarwin distribution still seems to be based on the Snow Leopard kernel, I'm not sure why. http://www.puredarwin.org/ http://www.puredarwin.org/