Editing Darwin (operating system) (section)

===PureDarwin===
PureDarwin is a project to create a bootable operating system image from Apple's released source code for Darwin.<ref>{{cite web |title=PureDarwin |url=https://www.puredarwin.org/ |access-date=April 1, 2024 |archive-date=April 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401234001/https://www.puredarwin.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Since the halt of OpenDarwin and the release of bootable images since Darwin 8.x, it has been increasingly difficult to create a full operating system as many components became closed source. In 2015 the project created a preview release based on Darwin 9 with an X11 GUI,<ref>[https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin/wiki/Xmas PureDarwin Xmas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203095014/https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin/wiki/Xmas |date=December 3, 2019 }} (2015)</ref> followed by a command-line only 17.4 Beta based on Darwin 17.<ref>{{cite web |title=PureDarwin 17.4 Beta |url=https://github.com/PureDarwin/PD-17.4-Beta |website=GitHub |publisher=PureDarwin |access-date=11 January 2020 |date=30 November 2019 |archive-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213013037/https://github.com/PureDarwin/PD-17.4-Beta |url-status=live }}</ref>