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• macOS Sequoia is certified to Unix 03
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2024
• Third Wave (Commercial) Open Source
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2024

  From TFA:

  "It took 24 years, but in 2023, MacOS Darwin closed the doors on its BSD-licensed origins."

  I have no idea what the author is talking about here - source for the open components of macOS is available at https://opensource.apple.com/releases/ (latest release is 14.5) and the last update to the XNU kernel github mirror (https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu) happened about 5 months ago.

• Apple Ramps Up R&D Intensity to Pre-iPhone Levels
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2024

  > 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/

• How to get into IOS Development / becoming an IOS Engineer?
  1 project | /r/cscareerquestions | 10 Dec 2023

  A lot of the core XNU and Darwin code is open source: https://opensource.apple.com/releases/

• Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2023

  > 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...

• HFS Origins: The Turbo File System (2017)
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023

  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-...

• Windows 11 Insider Preview — Rust in the Windows Kernel
  1 project | /r/rust | 13 Jul 2023

  Mach message passing and objc message passing have no relation. I don’t think xnu contains much if any objc.

• 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
  1 project | /r/gadgets | 7 Jun 2023

  Obviously not all of its, but they contribute quite a bit. https://opensource.apple.com/releases/

• 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
  3 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 7 Jun 2023

  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

• Apple’s new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a Mac
  3 projects | /r/Steam | 7 Jun 2023

  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.

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