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		selectodude on July 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save... It's only completely unrecognizable because Darwin is the kernel and userspace. The UI is whatever you want it to be.

gh02t on July 28, 2018 [–]

Right, that's my point. What most people associate with "macOS" is actually the stuff layered on top of Darwin, which is mostly proprietary. It's not just the GUI, it's also a lot of the frameworks and libraries as well.

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