Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

There is a fresh project, a couple of years old and in development, about a linux distro,if I remember correctly,or maybe it is based on BSD,with the goal to run the apple's software and it has the graphical interface which looks the same as the MacOSX. Does anyone remember the name ? The advantage is to not infringe any apple's copyright for sure. I'm not sure but if the system is different from the MacOSX but it offers the advantage to run the original apple's tools,is this a copyright infringement ?

Il giorno mar 22 nov 2022 alle ore 18:52 Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> ha scritto:

Well... that would basically be MacOS, or a GUI that looks like MacOS running on another BSD.

Mario Marietto wrote:

How difficult will it be to create a BSD system with the look and feel of the MacOSX ? I mean,not only based on aesthetics,but more structural,but not so much structural to incite the apple's lawyers.

Il giorno mar 22 nov 2022 alle ore 17:41 Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> ha scritto:

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:10 AM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote:
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> How much FreeBSD code is inside the MacOSX code today ?

That's a good question. The Darwin kernel is XNU. But a lot of
userland code is BSD. In fact, a lot of Apple's man pages say (or used
to say) they are for BSD. See attached for the codesign man page.

I remember around the time that Apple adopted the Mach kernel. They
finally got a memory manager! No more "It's not my fault" and error
code 8 (iirc). I am kind of surprised I can't find a YouTube video
with an old Mac saying it...

Also https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/1mix5h/id_like_the_differences_in_darwin_and_freebsd/
and see https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu .

Jeff

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