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beAbU 12 hours ago

If apple came out with their own linux distro, with open drivers and a mainline kernel... A girl can dream!

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starkparker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The memory that XNU and Darwin are technically open-source projects is a curse that brings one only suffering.

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p_ing 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I would call them open access. Apple doesn't accept contributions.

	▲	bigfishrunning an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Does not accepting contributions make you not open source? I would assume if the license allows you to fork it, that makes it open source (as opposed to "shared source" licenses that basically say "look don't touch")

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kylec 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I feel like Apple wouldn't want to make full Linux work on their hardware, but they could enable their Darwin kernel to emulate Linux syscalls and provide a way to boot into a mode that basically loads the kernel and whatever Linux shell you want

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pjmlp 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This path is already taken and it didn't sell Apple hardware in masses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux

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beAbU 11 hours ago | parent [-]

MkLinux was first released in 1996, and discontinued in 2002.

I would argue that things have changed significantly since then.

	▲	yfw 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah liquid glass suckss