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by lukeramsden 2044 days ago
First generation of MacOS on Apple Silicon?
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iOS has always used the same kernel as macOS.
Sure, it's all Darwin, but userspace matters a lot - you can do lots of things on MacOS that you can't do on iOS (JIT, arbitrary web engines, assorted emulators, pop a root shell and load arbitrary kernel modules)
And that helps i.e. Docker how?
iOS XNU is compiled with different features than macOS XNU.
They are mostly the same.