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PureDarwin Returns!!! (www.puredarwin.org)

submitted 2 months ago by hellfire103 to c/[email protected]

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[–] hellfire103 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Not sure. Maybe they're going to replace the nasty proprietary bits with tools and libraries from Linux and BSD?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Maybe a similar approach to ravynOS? From ravynOS homepage:

We're building familiar apps native to ravynOS, packaged as portable .app bundles and built with our core technologies of Cocoa, Qt, and Mach. These are guaranteed to work and fit seamlessly into your desktop.

Many FreeBSD ports and apps, Linux apps, and even trivial Darwin & macOS binaries can run on ravynOS. And we’re actively working on improving it!

[–] hellfire103 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kinda. I hadn't actually heard of ravynOS, so thanks for mentioning it. I'll be interested to try it out.

The main difference, however, is the kernel. ravynOS is based on FreeBSD with Mach and Cocoa added on top, which is like creating Mac OS X from first principles. PureDarwin, meanwhile, is based on the already-developed Darwin kernel used by macOS, but with the proprietary bits hacked off and replaced with FOSS tools from other projects (as far as I know).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That sounds interesting, thanks for clearing up the differences, both definitely very promising

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