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.
Nanos Alternatives
Nanos is described as 'New kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment. It has several constraints on it compared to a general purpose operating system such as Windows or Linux - namely it's a single process system with no support for running' and is a operating system in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Nanos for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Self-Hosted, Mac and Windows apps. The best Nanos alternative is Linux kernel, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nanos are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux-libre and GNU Hurd.
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XNU kernel is part of the Darwin operating system for use in OS X and iOS operating systems. XNU is an acronym for XNU is Not Unix. XNU is a hybrid kernel combining the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from FreeBSD and C++ API for writing...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
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