distribution-macOS
xnu
distribution-macOS | xnu | |
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14 | 47 | |
512 | 1,380 | |
2.7% | 4.9% | |
1.9 | 3.5 | |
about 1 month ago | about 1 month ago | |
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- | 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
xnu
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Apple Ramps Up R&D Intensity to Pre-iPhone Levels
> That said--in support of "not in a vacuum", and against myth-making.
Apple knows what they owe to open source software: https://opensource.apple.com/releases/
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How to get into IOS Development / becoming an IOS Engineer?
A lot of the core XNU and Darwin code is open source: https://opensource.apple.com/releases/
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Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs
> When I'm seeing a weird network issue, I want to be able to peer into the kernel's tcp stack.
Uhh...
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/tree/xnu-8796...
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HFS Origins: The Turbo File System (2017)
I think NeXT might've written an HFS Standard reader or something, but they used the Apple code for HFS+ so it ended up as a hybrid.
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/rel/xnu-...
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Windows 11 Insider Preview — Rust in the Windows Kernel
Mach message passing and objc message passing have no relation. I don’t think xnu contains much if any objc.
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Apple M1/M2 systems can now run Windows games like as Cyberpunk 2077, Diablo 4 and Hogwarts Legacy thanks to its new emulation software - VideoCardz.com
Obviously not all of its, but they contribute quite a bit. https://opensource.apple.com/releases/
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Apple releases a Game Porting Tool, based on open-source platform Wine, which can translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming
here is the kernel source (they have branches for each individual macos release with its darwin kernel ver, macos 13 is ver 8792.xx.x for instance): https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
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Apple’s new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a Mac
Apple does plenty of open source stuff. Safari's browser engine, Swift, libdispatch, the XNU kernel used by iOS and macOS, etc. And macOS is generally packed with open source things, like the default shell, zsh. Also, Metal actually predates Vulkan, so Vulkan was definitely not established when they started focusing on Metal. Yeah, they probably should consider supporting Vulkan now, but it's nothing to do with open source. The main beneficiaries of Apple supporting Vulkan would be people porting closed-source games.
- [Discussion] iPhone 8 running postmarketOS (Linux)
- Believe it or don't, Idc, but I am the dude who "forced" Apple to open-source everything. Hackintosh ftw :D
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.
darwin-xnu - Legacy mirror of Darwin Kernel. Replaced by https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
dos-utils - MS-DOS/FreeDOS utilities
Firefox-UI-Fix - 🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.
cups - OpenPrinting CUPS Sources
linux - Linux kernel source tree
grpc_bench - Various gRPC benchmarks
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opensource-management-portal - Microsoft's monolithic, opinionated Open Source Management Portal enabling enterprise scale self-service powered by the GitHub API 🏔🧑💻🧰
distribution-macO
unxip - A fast Xcode unarchiver