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PureDarwin – An Informal Successor to OpenDarwin

by cookrn on 5/31/16, 4:38 AM with 36 comments

• by soneil on 5/31/16, 7:50 AM

  Other than moving it to github, is there actually anything new here? They're still talking about the xmas release (2008), and of targeting Darwin9 (2007) and Darwin10(2009).

• by DigitalJack on 5/31/16, 7:04 AM

  I fully appreciate the "doing it for the fun of it" mentality. Am I wrong in assuming that is the "why" behind this project?

  I have used OS X full time for 7 years now, and I love it, but I never thought the kernel had much to recommend it.

• by lloeki on 5/31/16, 6:13 AM

  This is something I've been waiting for. After years of standby I've been working on Arch OS X again lately (fully operational but currently waiting for trademark approval from the Arch Linux team) and Arch Darwin is something I was contemplating to do for fun at some unspecified timeframe in the future.

• by orionblastar on 5/31/16, 4:50 AM

  Darwin was cool until Apple quit releasing ISO files and just the source code that needed a lot of work to debug it and put it back together.

  I'm glad to see someone took it over and has a goal of making Darwin ISO files. I hope it also gets an OSX themed skin for whatever Desktop GUI they decide to use with Cario Dock or something to look like OSX.