PureDarwin

Darwin is the Open Source core of macOS, and PureDarwin is a community project to extend Darwin into a complete, usable operating system. (by PureDarwin)

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PureDarwin reviews and mentions

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  • Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2024
    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

  • PureDarwin
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2022
    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
    2 projects | /r/MacOS | 2 Dec 2021
  • Project Richland : Announcement
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 16 Nov 2021
    Either a parody, or a new Linux distribution project like PureDarwin, I guess.
  • Anyone know how the PureDarwin Nano image was built?
    1 project | /r/PureDarwin | 6 Jun 2021
    - https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin/tree/master/setup and
  • Tim Cook on Why It's Time to Fight the "Data-Industrial Complex"
    1 project | /r/privacy | 3 Feb 2021
    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).
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PureDarwin/PureDarwin is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of PureDarwin is C.


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