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Is the Darwin kernel, used in macOS and iOS, really open source?

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Is the Darwin kernel, used in macOS and iOS, really open source?

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Technology@beehaw.org · 12 hours ago

I heard that it has proprietary components like the init system (launchd).

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unless apple is doing something weird, the init system is a program, not part of the kernel.

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