PureDarwin

The goal of this project is to make Darwin more usable by providing an installation ISO, documentation, and add-on software. You are welcome to join #puredarwin on irc.freenode.net if you would like to join PureDarwin development and to add to this site.

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Welcome


Darwin is the Open Source operating system from Apple that forms the basis for Mac OS X, and PureDarwin is a community project to make Darwin more usable (some people think of it as the informal successor to OpenDarwin).
One current goal of this project is to provide a bootable ISO of Darwin 9.x (the version that corresponds to 10.5.x Leopard).
Another goal of this project is to provide additional documentation. More...

This page shows where we currently are and will be constantly updated as we progress (see the current blockers).
Be sure to follow the news.

Status

The PureDarwin project announces the availability of "PureDarwin Xmas", a developer preview of the upcoming operating system based on Apple's Darwin 9 sources and other Open Source projects such as X11.

At the same time, the PureDarwin project would like to invite the community to discuss, participate and contribute.
The developer preview is available for download as a pre-configured virtual machine for VMware Fusion 2.0 on Macintosh, and the code used to generate it is available in a Subversion repository.

Documentation and hints

Credits 

We would like to thank
  • Apple, Inc. for releasing Darwin as Open Source 
  • kvv and _wms for their continuing help
  • David Elliott for his work on boot-132
  • The Chameleon team for their work on boot-132
  • The xnu-dev team for their work on the XNU kernel
  • Stuart Crook for his work on PureFoundation
  • Mac OS Forge 
  • The DarwinBuild project 
  • The MacPorts project
  • The folks at #macosforge, #macports, #macdev, #opendarwin, #puredarwin, 
  • Everyone else contributing to Darwin 
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