Based on our record, XNU seems to be a lot more popular than MINIX 3. While we know about 46 links to XNU, we've tracked only 1 mention of MINIX 3. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Sometimes, copying from existing operating systems (especially pedagogical ones) is a good places to start: Nachos, Minix (esp paired with Tanenbaum's OS book), Xv6, or ToyOS might be good reference material for you. Source: almost 2 years ago
> ...even though they are technically in violation of the GPL by modifying and shipping bash binaries without full source - it is missing rootless.h (not the X11 file) They're not. They've covered this in two main ways: 1) By listing all their source code on https://opensource.apple.com/ (which links to their GitHub with all the source code) 2) By offering a complete machine-readable copy of the source code upon... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
The XNU kernel has been open source for a very long time. https://opensource.apple.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU Note that this is not the full operating system/windowing system, it's just the kernel. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
Apple does plenty of open source stuff. Safari's browser engine, Swift, libdispatch, the XNU kernel used by iOS and macOS, etc. And macOS is generally packed with open source things, like the default shell, zsh. Also, Metal actually predates Vulkan, so Vulkan was definitely not established when they started focusing on Metal. Yeah, they probably should consider supporting Vulkan now, but it's nothing to do with... Source: 11 months ago
It's still not a great thing to do. Apple used to contribute a lot more, even if some of their stuff was exclusive to their platform. https://opensource.apple.com. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Everything that includes copyleft code is open source. You can see https://opensource.apple.com for a full list. Source: 12 months ago
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