XNU VS DAR

XNU

XNU is a hybrid kernel combining the Mach kernel with components from FreeBSD and C++

DAR

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Great News For JAILBREAK: Apple Open-Sourced The iOS (XNU) Kernel

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Category Popularity

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DAR

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Archive Manager

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, XNU should be more popular than DAR. It has been mentiond 46 times since March 2021. 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.

XNU mentions (46)

ScummVM officially released in the App Store
> ...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 / 5 months ago
macOS 13.5 source code released
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 / 9 months ago
Apple’s new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a Mac
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: 12 months ago
DirectX 12 Support on macOS
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 / 12 months ago
[D] ClosedAI license, open-source license which restricts only OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta from commercial use
Everything that includes copyleft code is open source. You can see https://opensource.apple.com for a full list. Source: about 1 year ago

DAR mentions (14)

What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?
Dar is the only tool I know of that supports incremental backups to untrusted remote storage. All the remote sees are giant encrypted blobs. Source: about 1 year ago
Uploading encrypted zfs volume to cloud
DAR is a linux tool that does incremental updates after a snapshot: http://dar.linux.free.fr/. Source: about 1 year ago
How many of you have used ‘tar’ for what it was actually made for?
I have also used dar ( http://dar.linux.free.fr/ ) instead of tar for recent disk archives. Source: over 1 year ago
Post your favorite programs
Dar - Like tar, but can do incremental and differential backups with rsync-style binary diffs, only archiving what's changed (and without trusting mtimes like tar --newer does). Source: almost 2 years ago
What is your preferred software to back up your data, and why?
Write compressed, encrypted, sliced archives of the lvm snapshot to HDDs mounted via USB using dar Dar will pause to change HDD every few TiB. Source: almost 2 years ago