I'm not entirely sure which is why I ask how it compares. My understanding is that it's basically what powers MacOS but made up of everything Apple makes open source boxed up together for you as a full system. For the gaps where Apple doesn't release source, homebrew code is written to piece it all together.
Like, PureDarwin is aimed at making Darwin an accessible kernel whereas the OS linked above is more like ReactOS as OP said. I feel there'd be a lot of overlap in work though and would love to hear more about said overlaps
Yeah pretty much -- just because cleanrooming is pretty sound legally does not mean Apple will simply let people reverse-engineer the thing that gives their hardware any value. Its probably the main reason nobody has even hinted at doing this before.
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NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 5d
How does it compare to PureDarwin?
morto@piefed.social · 3 pts · 5d
Oh, I have no idea. Just stumbled upon it and thought it was coll enough to share. I didn't know about puredarwin as well, thanks for sharing!
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 5d
Oh, no worries! What you shared is super cool and I'm looking forward to hearing more about it :)
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 5d
Isn't PureDarwin just a distribution to run anything from ports in, making it no different than any Unix flavor?
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 5d
I'm not entirely sure which is why I ask how it compares. My understanding is that it's basically what powers MacOS but made up of everything Apple makes open source boxed up together for you as a full system. For the gaps where Apple doesn't release source, homebrew code is written to piece it all together.
Like, PureDarwin is aimed at making Darwin an accessible kernel whereas the OS linked above is more like ReactOS as OP said. I feel there'd be a lot of overlap in work though and would love to hear more about said overlaps
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 5d
I couldn’t find any screenshots
morto@piefed.social · 7 pts · 5d
They're at very preliminary work and I believe they don't have any kind of gui yet. They have a demo vm for playing around: https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos/releases/tag/demo-vm
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 5d
Oh, nice. I’ll give it a try.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 5d
They're gonna meet a terrible fate.
morto@piefed.social · 1 pts · 5d
You mean like lawsuits?
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 5d
Yeah pretty much -- just because cleanrooming is pretty sound legally does not mean Apple will simply let people reverse-engineer the thing that gives their hardware any value. Its probably the main reason nobody has even hinted at doing this before.