4 ms·

If apple came out with their own linux distro, with open drivers and a mainline kernel... A girl can dream!

• pjmlp 7mo ago
  This path is already taken and it didn't sell Apple hardware in masses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux
  • beAbU 7mo ago
    MkLinux was first released in 1996, and discontinued in 2002. I would argue that things have changed significantly since then.
    • yfw 7mo ago
      Yeah liquid glass suckss
• starkparker 7mo ago
  The memory that XNU and Darwin are technically open-source projects is a curse that brings one only suffering.
  • p_ing 7mo ago
    I would call them open access. Apple doesn't accept contributions.
    • bigfishrunning 7mo ago
      Does not accepting contributions make you not open source? I would assume if the license allows you to fork it, that makes it open source (as opposed to "shared source" licenses that basically say "look don't touch")
• kylec 7mo ago
  I feel like Apple wouldn't want to make full Linux work on their hardware, but they could enable their Darwin kernel to emulate Linux syscalls and provide a way to boot into a mode that basically loads the kernel and whatever Linux shell you want