Wazzup Bro.

Mac OSX is based on Free BSD so Apple must release its OS source code because of the BSD license that is tied with Free BSD. It includes all of the Apple stuff ( kernel ) except for the GUI and Apple software because that is proprietary closed source.

The link for download can be found at puredarwin.org Their website does not have a lot of documentation and work they do does not frequently get posted to the page it seems like. It says they are working on OSX Snow Leopard, and the Apple release of that OS came out way back in 2011. So you will not be getting the bleeding edge stuff that is included in the newer Apple releases.


I have not used puredarwin but I believe that you can do anything with it as you would a BSD system. I even think that you can install Apple software onto it but I am not sure.

I also think that you need a Apple system to get it up and running flawlessly. But you may be able to get a semi working system out of non-mac hardware.

I tried to install this along time ago but had no luck, all I got was kernel errors every time I tried to boot the system. I believe the kernel was complaining that it could not find my Pentium CPU.


yrmt knows more because he runs PureDarwin ( At least I think he does, or he may be running OSX without the default Desktop and instead a tiling window manager and a different port manager ) so you will want to shoot him an e-mail. I remember that he had a picture of his Darwin setup on Deviantart, I will try to find that. It was just a scrot of a tiling window manager I recall.

Ya, its Darwin with xQuartz with mcdwm.
http://ybeastie.deviantart.com/art/Unix-...-346040665