What is ravynOS?

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ravynOS is an open source OS project that aims to provide a similar experience and some compatibility with macOS on x86-64 (and eventually arm64/arm64e) systems. It builds on the solid foundations of Darwin and FreeBSD, existing open source packages in the same space, and new code to fill the gaps.

The main design goals are:

• Source compatibility with macOS applications (i.e. you could compile a Mac application on ravynOS and run it). Binary compatibility eventually.
• Similar GUI metaphors and familiar UX (file manager, application launcher, top menu bar that reflects the open application, etc) which provide the expected Apple APIs to applications
• Compatible with macOS folder layouts (/Library, /System, /Users, /Volumes, etc) and filesystems (HFS+, APFS) plus other useful filesystems like FAT, NTFS, ZFS.
• Self-contained applications in App Bundles with support for DMG files and other archive formats.
• Updated Unix environment with current tools, shells, and power user tools
• Pleasant to use, secure, stable, and performant

Join us!

• Can you help build the dream? See the current projects/needs in CONTRIBUTING.md!
• Our Discord server.
• #ravynOS-general:matrix.org - join via Element.io