Imagine the world where open-source is collaborating instead of fragmenting. Single Linux distribution, single compartibility layer for other OSes, single graphics API, single package manager...
RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
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Re: RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
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There used to be a bootable Darwin instance that Apple published, which on paper would've made things a bit easier, but they stopped publishing it a while ago. It never resulted in any serious OS with a UI however.
There was a community around Darwin for a while, and people released Darwin distros that ran X11 and a variety of ported Unix software. You’re right that it never really amounted to anything serious though. Within Apple, open sourcing Darwin seems to mainly have been a marketing ploy to get Unix/Linux people interested in Mac OS X by tying it to the hype around the open source movement. There’s a good article with mo…
The premise of that article is way off base. Darwin didn't fail, because the point wasn't to create a robust open source operating system along the lines of Linux. Apple got everything they needed from the OSS community while providing no more than they were required to. Apple got a bunch of tools, utilities, shells, etc as well as a view that this was a Real UNIX Operating System (TM) (they even got it certified) and that inarguably sold millions of machines
Their goal was never to build a community around Darwin or get a bunch of people outside the company using Darwin sans Mac OS X's proprietary bits, or to get a bunch of people outside the company contributing to Darwin
Re: RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
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What will you personally be contributing to the project to help move things along? Besides accolades on HN of course. I'm being real here and frankly blind, empty support of open-source projects does zero to support them.
I'm actually the head lead developer in chief president. Now, your cheerios?
(For those not catching on that the claim was written in jest, the person commenting here is not the creator of this project nor have they committed any code.)
Re: RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
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What will you personally be contributing to the project to help move things along? Besides accolades on HN of course. I'm being real here and frankly blind, empty support of open-source projects does zero to support them.
I'm actually the head lead developer in chief president. Now, your cheerios?
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Re: RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
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I wager that maybe, probably, possibly, perhaps the GUI of this thing looks like ass and feels even worse. There used to be screenshots, you can google them. But maybe don’t.
And, perhaps (?), that ties in with the GUI being the most proprietary thing here, thus, them building that last/less or wanting to de-emphasize it?
Aristo already exists and looks great: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=aristo%20cxr&sor...>
Re: RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
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Perhaps the biggest reason is that the existing FOSS OS world has little to offer for people who like a Mac-style desktop. It's possible to customize DEs to have a very shallow visual resemblance but the details are all wrong, with Windows, legacy Linux desktops, and even mobile operating systems (in e.g. the case of GNOME) exerting the greater bulk of design influence. The question might then, "why not make this a D…
EndeavorOS. I think it's actually the userspace though, which this aims to emulate. The problem is that if you're using a macbook for final cut pro, then endeavorOS doesn't solve your problem.
Hmm, isn't EndeavorOS in the same vein as CachyOS? Mainly a pre-configured Arch variant with a custom point-and-click configurator built in? I don't see where it'd be of particular interest to would-be switchers using macOS.
Re: RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
#47Imagine the world where open-source is collaborating instead of fragmenting. Single Linux distribution, single compartibility layer for other OSes, single graphics API, single package manager...
Imagine a world where there's no innovation because everyone just accepts the current standard instead of trying something weird.
Re: RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
#48from the faq: > Is this... legally sketchy? No. Consider projects like ReactOS, a from-scratch effort to create an OS compatible with Microsoft Windows, GNUstep, which provides an open implementation of Cocoa APIs and other things, or Darling, a compatibility layer for running Darwin (macOS) binaries on Linux. ravynOS is similar and stands on the shoulders of many such projects. as far as i understand it, most compan…
Microsoft definitely know about ReactOS.
Re: RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
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> Four years and still pre-alpha. Stick a fork in it. Who jammed a toe in your cheerios?
What will you personally be contributing to the project to help move things along? Besides accolades on HN of course. I'm being real here and frankly blind, empty support of open-source projects does zero to support them.
What? You're the one attacking this project. Or attacking everyone in this thread?
Like seriously, what do you want here? Or are you just mad at everyone and lashing out?
Re: RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
#50Another one? What happened to the other one that was called ... (quick Google) ... Hello System?