u/anurodhp

Linux is a fantastic os for servers and can scale up from embedded devices to massive servers. Linux and xnu are optimized around different engineering goals. Assuming equal driver support, xnu is designed to prioritize low jitter, deadline driven determinism in human perceptible tasks like audio latency and UIs. xnus scheduler and IPC design offer distinct advantages in frame pacing, audio latency, and UI responsiveness under heavy system load.

I’ve been experimenting with running Darwin on rpi3. Realistically this is a toy project to serve as a proof of concept. On a rpi5 however, without the bandwidth, memory limitations and unified memory, Darwin will be able to shine.

A lot of major advances in the last 24 hours. We now have sd card, fat32, hfs+ support. Darwin will now boot to a single user shell. Os development continues towards a standard Unix multi user system.

Ethernet is implemented as well but will need usb support before it works.

Another thread and another account graveyard. Reddit is also removing posts and deleting accounts.

If you see it, flag the comment or post and we will delete and ban.

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A lot of people seem to think PureDarwin has stalled.

It hasn't. Development just moved to the `next` branch while we work towards something actually releasable.

github.com/PureDarwin/PureDrawin//next

You can find old branches at PureDarwin-archive

For reference, both Ferdinand Klinzer (hideout) and Tyson Key (vmlemon) are aware and in the loop, I constantly consult them on feedback.

Current disk images can be found in the Discord server (unsure if I am allowed to post outside links besides known sources)

It's still not reliable enough to call a release, but I actively work on it pretty much every day.

Since then we've gained:

• USB (Input and MSD, XHCI and EHCI
• AHCI (shared from ravynOS, with some changes being upstreamed)
• virtio-gpu
• virtio-net
• Intel Gen9 framebuffer drivers (my own implementation, based on managarm's `lil`)
• Real hardware booting (Intel only, AMD is spotty)
• Mesa (OpenGL, Vulkan, llvmpipe)
• Wayland
• X11

Oh and of course, we have DOOM. This was just the more polished demo

Development updates is constantly posted to the Discord channel.

TL;DR PureDarwin isn't dead. It's just been spending a lot of time in the "doing the unglamorous infrastructure work before calling it a release" phase.

Read some more information from another post in the r/FreeBSD subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vgj63g/puredarwin_contains_freebsd_code_now_can_run_xfce

A thread to discuss the beta. How is it going? What is working for your and what isnt?

We are currently testing support for amazon devices (fire tvs before 2026, fire tablets) in private beta. We will open it up to more people soon. If you are interested in being an early tester, please DM me your email address to be added to the list.

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The World Cup was one of the biggest, most prolonged things we have ever streamed. You can see the days and popularity of all the matches in the data that was used. I don’t actually know what changed on June 21. It’s sort of the middle of the round robin stages that ends on June 27, but I see something change on that day in a lot of logs.

https://www.pokharel.org/2026/07/19/world-cup-data-usage/

There are a lot of changes in the works. We have held off on making changes during the nba playoffs, Stanley cup and World Cup. As a result there have been no updates for a few months now. After the World Cup finals we will release a lot of changes which will come very rapidly. What to expect in the next few weeks

1. Improved longer guide data 
2. Improved Android client with background audio support, PIP support
3. Amazon fire support 
4. Hopefully Metv toons returns 
5. Login with google