
Darling might help with that, you'd essentially need to port that back to darwin, which would be wierd.

For that matter, apple keeps its userland close to its chest, and that's the big pain point. Get a usable userland and you can run the otherguy's stuff. There's been a few attempts - you could get the kernels free for a while ( there seem to be versions here), and attempts to throw together a functional userland around that - puredarwin at least has a webpage, but is not really there. You'd want to run this on arbitrary hardware.Īs of 2016. I'm assuming that's not what this is about. Annoyingly for a reinstall there's no 'iso' download - you could in theory build an installer off of an ESD if you did have a mac and internet recovery is your best bet/supported bet for a bare metal install.

There's no way to 'simply' download an ISO and install it on an arbitrary system.

OS X updates tend to be free - but IIRC its between consecutive versions, and you need to have apple hardware, or a running system.
