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Re: Airyx OS

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Post by saagarjha »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #22
cercatrova wrote: post #16

Can I compile iOS apps on this? That's honestly the only thing holding me to macOS, I really wish Apple didn't force every iOS developer to use macOS to do so.

Isn’t that dependent on your private key stored on Apple’s equivalent to a TPM? That said, lots of IDEs let you build on Windows/Linux, they just use a daemon running on a headless Mac on your LAN (or a rented “cloud” Mac) to do the code-signing part.

No, building software for iOS is possible on other platforms although this is against the terms of the Apple developer agreement.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by burlesona »

Sorry for what I’m sure is a stupid question, but what base this on BSD rather than Darwin itself?

Or, probably a better question, how am I misunderstanding the situation :)

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Post by wmf »

vzaliva wrote: post #9

Projects like these will be always one step behind the thing they are trying to replicate (MacOS in this case). It is better to spend one's creative energy innovating and coming up with better solutions rather than re-implementing what Apple is doing.

It is better to spend one's creative energy innovating and coming up with better solutions rather than re-implementing what Apple is doing.

What if you spend your entire career innovating and the result is still worse than Snow Leopard?

(/me kicks GNOME into a bottomless pit)

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by skee_0x4459 »

people are hungry for a new utilitarian but fresh desktop OS. after the phone-home thing macos doesnt even exist as an option in my mind. i really like elementaryOS.

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Post by sedatk »

burlesona wrote: post #42

Sorry for what I’m sure is a stupid question, but what base this on BSD rather than Darwin itself? Or, probably a better question, how am I misunderstanding the situation :)

Perhaps because APSL is incompatible with GPL?

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by jagger27 »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #25
shortformblog wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that there’s 20 years of “behind,” and many of those machines are no longer getting updates, what’s the harm? The dev learns something and the community gains knowledge from the project. I was once critical of ReactOS for similar reasons, but I’ve realized just how beneficial that project has been to OSS as a whole. Even if they fail they will uncover a lot of interesting stuff if the project continues long-ter…

I’d argue that Wine has been of far greater utility than ReactOS - both to users and as contribution to open-source.

There is a ton of cross-pollination between the ReactOS and Wine projects. Sure, Wine is more useful but they wouldn’t exist as they do today without each other.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by hellbannedguy »

dotBen wrote: post #24
kamilszybalski wrote: post #20

Why do you think people want this?

People with old computers that no longer receive MacOS security updates, but are still perfectly functional and pretty powerful computers.

That is a big market, I believe.

I don't think I will ever buy a new Mac. I will by used though.

I will continue buying Phones, and Ipads, until there's a comparable product.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by fluxem »

Pretty interesting project.

However, who really wants a "global menu bar". It made sense for the original mac, when people just used one app at a time. And it's left in the current MacOS for legacy reasons. But now people usually have multiple 27" monitors. So, instead of having menus where the app is, you need to move the mouse all the way to the top and then back. Im not sure why anyone would want to replicate it.

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