TIL about RavynOS - A FOSS OS that aims to be compatible with mac os

2 months ago by morto to c/todayilearned

An open-source operating system based on Darwin and FreeBSD that aims to be compatible with macOS applications.

It's like what reactOS is to windows, but for macOS. Very cool

NotSteve_ 6 points a month ago

How does it compare to PureDarwin?

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morto 3 points a month ago

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!

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NotSteve_ 3 points a month ago

Oh, no worries! What you shared is super cool and I'm looking forward to hearing more about it :)

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KingThrillgore 3 points a month ago

Isn't PureDarwin just a distribution to run anything from ports in, making it no different than any Unix flavor?

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NotSteve_ 1 point a month ago

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

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Zachariah 5 points 2 months ago

I couldn’t find any screenshots

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morto 7 points 2 months ago

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/...

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Zachariah 6 points a month ago

Oh, nice. I’ll give it a try.

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KingThrillgore 2 points a month ago

They're gonna meet a terrible fate.

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morto 1 point a month ago

You mean like lawsuits?

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KingThrillgore 1 point a month ago

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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