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Why did Darwin never take off as an open-source operating system? Besides macOS of course.

It's most likely a case of it being overshadowed by BSD/(GNU/Linux) akin to quite a few other operating systems.

>>36920 I was pretty excited about this when I bought one of the first x86 macs. IIRC from watching the community, they just didn't get soykaf for support from apple which is very unfortunate given the amount of free work they'd have reaped in return. Very sad since IIRC there was a lot of interest in getting gnustep running on it and having a nice foss NeXT system. Of course this very well might have been exactly what apple was not interested in happening.

>>36920 Honestly, because you have to compile the entire thing yourself like Gentoo. This is a casual filter. Most beginners get into linux over BSD even today because the BSDs that have retard-proof installers and live-hybridiso are very very recent.

>>36920 >Why did Darwin never take off as an open-source operating system? it came to public too late and introduced nothing of real matter

>>36920 >Why did Darwin never take off as an open-source operating system? How do you install software? Who runs the repos? Compiles the binaries? Updates the build scripts? Without a community or corporate sponsor to do those things then it's nothing more than a toy OS. >>36934 >Honestly, because you have to compile the entire thing yourself like Gentoo. Gentoo still has dozens of volunteers who maintain the build scrips. Even though most open source software is written specifically for linux anyway it's still a lot of work to get things compiling and running correctly. Nevermind non-Linux/non-BSD unicies. Look at how dead and unusable Hurd and Solaris are despite all the money dumped into them. Apple probably couldn't have made Darwin a thing even if they wanted to. >This is a casual filter. Most beginners get into linux over BSD even today because the BSDs that have retard-proof installers and live-hybridiso are very very recent. Same for linux really. The real reason the BSDs lost is because in the early 90s BSD (back when there was only one BSD) was caught up in years long lawsuits from whoever legally owned Unix at that point because obviously they shared source code. There was a real possibility that BSD wouldn't survive and then some Finish nerd made a completely independent unix clone and everyone jumped on that instead. By the time BSD cleared itself from the lawsuits Linux had too much traction.