pcgeos
#FreeGEOS source codes. The offical home of the PC/GEOS operating system technology. For personal computing fans. For all developers and assembly lovers. For YOU! (by bluewaysw)
darwin-xnu
Legacy mirror of Darwin Kernel. Replaced by https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu (by apple)
| pcgeos | darwin-xnu | |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 186 | |
| 626 | 10,694 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.9 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Assembly | C | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pcgeos
Posts with mentions or reviews of pcgeos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
- PC GEOS: the multitasking DOS-based GUI OS that evolved from a C64 desktop
- What OS's run over DOS other then Windows?
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Had this NOKIA-9000 communicator laying on my shelf for a long time, and I’m still amazed how cool this device was back in the day.
Runs PC-GEOS! Which recently got open sourced, if you want to write software for it... https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
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Can anyone suggest any fun to mess around with software that I can find on archive.org? I'm looking for things from old businesses or just anything fun really.
luckily we have sources now ( https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos ) so that makes it much more fun. it's kinda weird to read TODO from 199x :)
- Kali Linux
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MS-DOS in Hyper-V
i was a bit joking with geos but of course, if you are curious - then try it. by now even the sources are available if you want to read some cute assembly or dive in prehistoric kernel ( https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos ).
- The QNX Demo Disk: a full xNix OS, with GUI and browser, on just 1 1.4MB floppy
darwin-xnu
Posts with mentions or reviews of darwin-xnu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.
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What font is thls?
Here's the C source code of the font itself, as a 256x16 array of 8 bit values.
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Long before CentOS or RHEL, a reminder from 2000: RedHatIsNotLinux.org
> Update: fortunately there's still Mac OS.
Go download the source for Darwin.. https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu
Compile it. Install it on your MacBook. Tell us how well MacOS boots that kernel.
- Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit is Wine
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The real murder is always in the comments
What is still true? That apple kernels are Mach kernels? It still is very true. Darwin is (mostly) open source, you can check it out here: https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu
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[D] ClosedAI license, open-source license which restricts only OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta from commercial use
Everything that includes copyleft code is open source. You can see https://opensource.apple.com for a full list
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Google Leaked Doc: OpenAI doesn’t matter
Jup! Their kernel was based on FreeBSD, IIRC, and is Open Source!
- An improvement to Apple's XNU kernel
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Linux is too proprietary and slow compared to Windows 11
Funfact darwin itself is open source aswell: apple/darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel (mirror). This repository is a pure mirror and contributions are currently not accepted via pull-requests, please submit your contributions via https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ (github.com)
- Linux got nothing on macOS
- Top Ten Fallacies About RISC-V
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pcgeos and darwin-xnu you can also consider the following projects:
Smalltalk - By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80
DeepCreamPy
ChromeLeft4kDead - Notch's Left4kDead as a Chrome App.
linux-m1 - Linux kernel source tree
Overbot - Team Overbot source code from the 2005 Grand Challenge
ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
GladiatorPits-MUD - The source code behind Richard Woolcock's Gladiator Pits.
freebsd-src - The FreeBSD src tree publish-only repository. Experimenting with 'simple' pull requests....
mikeOS - Mirror for MikeOS 4.5 - Simple and educational Operating System written by Mike Saunders
darling - Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux
webtorrent - ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web
xnu