| xnu | dyld | |
|---|---|---|
| 47 | 32 | |
| 1,380 | 534 | |
| 4.9% | 2.1% | |
| 3.5 | 4.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
xnu
Posts with mentions or reviews of xnu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-03.
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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
dyld
Posts with mentions or reviews of dyld.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
- An M1 for Curl
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Maybe all the big companies should stop using Linux as it's open source so it's a "serious security concern"
None of what? In case I understood you by chance, there's a whole darwin stack on github, grouped neatly at https://opensource.apple.com/releases/. There is a lot of argument about what's open source and what's not, I consider permissive licenses as open source. I did never claim that any Apple software is open source, but due to OS's modular nature I'm willing to say that macOS and iOS consequently is largely open source
- Tales of the M1 GPU
- Is the kernel code quality getting any better?
- What does closed-source with open-source components mean?
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Why do many Linux fans have a greater distaste for Microsoft over Apple?
A lot of Apple software including the operating systems is open source, though in practice many of the key components that you might need to solve a problem or understand a bug are missing from these repositories.
- Ask HN: Examples of Microkernels?
- We all have a piece of Apple software on every distro
- Weston/Wayland now works on M1 GPU
- Apple fixes eighth zero-day used to hack iPhones and Macs this year
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xnu and dyld you can also consider the following projects:
darwin-xnu - Legacy mirror of Darwin Kernel. Replaced by https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
Firefox-UI-Fix - 🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.
lk - LK embedded kernel
cups - OpenPrinting CUPS Sources
proton-calendar - Proton Calendar built with React.
grpc_bench - Various gRPC benchmarks
NT5.1 - Windows NT 5.0 kernel source code.
opensource-management-portal - Microsoft's monolithic, opinionated Open Source Management Portal enabling enterprise scale self-service powered by the GitHub API 🏔🧑💻🧰
ios-mail - Secure email that protects your privacy
unxip - A fast Xcode unarchiver
m1n1_windows - m1n1, but adapted to run windows (aka with a GIC emulator)