distribution-macOS
PureDarwin
distribution-macOS | PureDarwin | |
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14 | 7 | |
512 | 2,090 | |
2.7% | 1.0% | |
1.9 | 8.2 | |
about 1 month ago | about 2 months ago | |
C | ||
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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distribution-macOS
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Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
Every Christmas break I always hope I'll have the emotional energy to dig back into https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin#readme and see if I can get it to boot, even on VirtualBox, let alone some hackintosh friendly hardware like OP did
I am super, super cognizant that the devil's in the proverbial details, but they sure do seem to publish a lot of macOS into the open <https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...> so my interest is to map out the parts that are missing
I'm also aware that Darling exists (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423469 ) but if it's anything like Wine -- no, thank you. The only reason Wine (and their CrossOver friends) are required to exist is because there's no suitable open source release of Windows, so emulating the bugs is glucose cheaper. I had high hopes for ReactOS when I was in college, but I think they're just pushing that rock uphill (although I am super glad the project exists)
Having said all of that, don't overlook that even if I snapped my fingers and had a PureDarwin built 14.3 .iso this very second, the supply chain for x86_64 applications for any such OS is likely going the way of the dodo, since it won't be in a vendor's best interest to dedicate resources to building releases for what they assume is a dead platform
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macOS 13.5 source code released
To be fair, linking to the Releases page when there are no release notes are all here was completely useless for browsing. Linking directly to the tag on the Git repo would make it obvious that submodules are being used and allows browsing directly:
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...
I doubt most readers on HN are going to clone this locally and I also doubt anyone expects a release archive to contain Git submodules. This isn't to fault the repo authors, since we have to note that there isn't an actual "GitHub Release" here, it's just the automatic archive from GitHub for a certain tag.
- Unbekannte Berufe
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Any good vendors still out there without a subscription model?
Vendors have been selling you open-source software since the '80s. Here's macOS 13.2's open-source components. Darwin isn't really a thing any more, but around half of what Apple doesn't distribute any more is open source as well.
- RDP Server for Mac? Looking for a way to control my MAC from my Windows machine (No VNC)
- Aero OS: A new modern operating system made in Rust, now able to run the Links browser, Alacritty and much more!
- The SFC urges John Deere to surrender source code under GPL
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Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo
Darwin is open source. Here's the repo for their kernel: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/tree/main. The userspace stuff can be found here: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...
- Torvalds using Asahi
- Apple finally embraces open source
PureDarwin
- PureDarwin: Community project to extend Darwin into a complete, usable OS
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Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
Every Christmas break I always hope I'll have the emotional energy to dig back into https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin#readme and see if I can get it to boot, even on VirtualBox, let alone some hackintosh friendly hardware like OP did
I am super, super cognizant that the devil's in the proverbial details, but they sure do seem to publish a lot of macOS into the open <https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...> so my interest is to map out the parts that are missing
I'm also aware that Darling exists (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423469 ) but if it's anything like Wine -- no, thank you. The only reason Wine (and their CrossOver friends) are required to exist is because there's no suitable open source release of Windows, so emulating the bugs is glucose cheaper. I had high hopes for ReactOS when I was in college, but I think they're just pushing that rock uphill (although I am super glad the project exists)
Having said all of that, don't overlook that even if I snapped my fingers and had a PureDarwin built 14.3 .iso this very second, the supply chain for x86_64 applications for any such OS is likely going the way of the dodo, since it won't be in a vendor's best interest to dedicate resources to building releases for what they assume is a dead platform
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PureDarwin
Neat project. Only two commits for 2022 though: https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin/commits/main
- As despicable as it is, can we talk about how well North Korea did at turning Fedora Linux in to an exact OS X rip off? If Apple could’ve this would’ve been sued in to oblivion
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Project Richland : Announcement
Either a parody, or a new Linux distribution project like PureDarwin, I guess.
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Anyone know how the PureDarwin Nano image was built?
- https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin/tree/master/setup and
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Tim Cook on Why It's Time to Fight the "Data-Industrial Complex"
However, you're again mistaken about Apple's own open source code. Most of their open source code is in relation to Unix/BSD stuff they've used in their operating systems, such as the Mach kernel and some (low-level, from my understanding) parts of FreeBSD. Over the years, they've slowly been adding their own proprietary code, and you'll find that even their open source macOS "base", Darwin, is far from complete (go have a look at the PureDarwin project to see more or less what can be made from the macOS code Apple has made publicly available).
What are some alternatives?
macos - The open-source components of macOS. Using the "GitHub File Diff" Chrome/Firefox extension is recommended as most commits are too large to view fully.
harvey - A distributed operating system
dos-utils - MS-DOS/FreeDOS utilities
raspberry-pi-os - Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
darwin-xnu - Legacy mirror of Darwin Kernel. Replaced by https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
SketchyBar - A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement
linux - Linux kernel source tree
libcoreservices - libsystem_coreservices
screen
cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library
distribution-macO
MacOSX-SDKs - A collection of those pesky SDK folders: MacOSX10.1.5.sdk thru MacOSX11.3.sdk