• Dennis
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    5 hours ago

    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!

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      5 hours ago

      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).

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        4 hours ago

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