Darwin is the open source operating system from Apple that forms the base for macOS, iOS, tvOS, etc.
PureDarwin is a community project to make Darwin more usable on its own (some people think of it as the informal successor to OpenDarwin).
One current goal of this project is to provide a useful bootable ISO of Darwin. Another goal of this project is to provide additional documentation. More...
Regarding broken, outdated, or incomplete wiki content, as well as contributing to the wiki, please see the Wiki page.
Please visit the GitHub repository.
MacPorts is running on PureDarwin 9, potentially giving us thousands of open source software titles.
The screenshot above shows a PureDarwin 9 system created from the scripts in our repository, running on real hardware, using TightVNC and XFCE from MacPorts.
The Current Blockers page shows where we currently are.
As of now, you can either build a PureDarwin system yourself based on the information on this site and our and Apple's open source and DarwinBuild source code repositories, or download "PureDarwin Xmas", a developer preview of the operating system based on Apple's Darwin 9 sources and other Open Source projects.
At the same time, the PureDarwin project would like to invite the community to discuss, participate and contribute.
The developer preview is available for download as a pre-configured virtual machine for VMware Fusion 2.0 on Macintosh, and the code used to generate it is available in a Subversion/Mercurial repository form.
A minimal PureDarwin system known as "PureDarwin Nano" is also available, where only one process is running (a shell).
We would like to thank
- Apple, Inc. for releasing Darwin as Open Source
- kvv and _wms for their continuing help
- Adam Baxter for finding a Gold Sponsor to provide a hosted Mac mini from MacStadium
- David Elliott for his work on boot-132
- The Chameleon team for their work on boot-132
- The xnu-dev team for their work on the XNU kernel
- Stuart Crook for his work on PureFoundation
- Guillaume Verdeau for his work on X.Org
- Rafirafi for his work on Generic Platform kexts
- Mac OS Forge
- The DarwinBuild project
- The MacPorts project
- The folks at #macosforge, #macports, #macdev, #opendarwin, #puredarwin,
- Everyone else contributing to Darwin
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