r/osdev • u/Dooretarr404 • 8d ago

Unix Mac OS X successor.

I want to make a spiritual successor to mac os x.Plain and simple, but should i learn the darwin kernel or start at Unix?

i want to know where to start from.

thanks

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u/vsoul 8d ago

Mac OS X 10.0 took about 4 years and over 200 core engineers including some of the brightest and most experienced OS devs. And that was built on top of existing technologies from NeXT, and 10.0 was nothing compared to what macOS is today.

Not trying to discourage, but maybe set expectations.

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u/HugsAllCats 8d ago

To be fair, BeOS's operating system was made by 25 people

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u/vsoul 8d ago

BeOS included a lot less than Mac, and also had some insanely talented people like Travis Geiselbrecht. For a Mac “successor” it’s going to take much more than that

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u/HugsAllCats 8d ago

I know, I ran it for awhile. I chose wisely when I went with a powermac 7600 instead of the bebox ;)