Ask HN: Would it be feasible to build an open source mobile OS based on XNU?

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Isn't most of the goodness of iOS (like sandboxing) included within XNU/Darwin?

As far as I can gather, the "iOS" portion is just a collection of drivers and UI frameworks that could be re-implemented in open source.

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Building a mobile OS with sandboxing is not hard. Building an app ecosystem that has the apps people expect to be able to use your mobile OS is extremely hard.

This would not be realistic. XNU is a tiny fraction of iOS. Also, Apple does not publish the version of XNU that makes up iOS.

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