Reverse engineering the OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP systems

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Title: Reverse engineering the OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP systems
Post by: KeepFst on September 03, 2021, 10:43:43 AM
Hi, I'm new with operational systems stuff and apple/BSD things, I would like to know if there is a reverse engineering project for nextstep or openstep like what reactos do with windows, I think if community study and disassemble the systems would be very nice to the BSD projects. a good day to everyone ;).
Title: Re: Reverse engineering the OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP systems
Post by: itomato on September 03, 2021, 03:16:40 PM
There is the Openstep Spec and GNUstep project which seeks to reimplement it http://www.gnustep.org/resources/resources.html

NeXTBSD came and went https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NextBSD

You must also know about Darwin https://opensource.apple.com/

AFAIK, nobody is actively (publicly) decompiling and reverse-engineering closed OS components.

There is also the cocotron https://www.cocotron.org/
Title: Re: Reverse engineering the OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP systems
Post by: KeepFst on September 04, 2021, 12:28:48 AM
thanks man, u r awesome!
Title: Re: Reverse engineering the OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP systems
Post by: igor_av on September 06, 2021, 10:19:43 PM
Quote from: itomato on September 03, 2021, 03:16:40 PMThere is the Openstep Spec and GNUstep project which seeks to reimplement it http://www.gnustep.org/resources/resources.html

The is also the NEXTSPACE project. It is based on GNUstep and does a pretty good job at implementing the look and feel of NS/OS.

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace (https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace)
Title: Re: Reverse engineering the OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP systems
Post by: itomato on September 07, 2021, 11:05:54 AM
Quote from: igor_av on September 06, 2021, 10:19:43 PMThe is also the NEXTSPACE project. It is based on GNUstep and does a pretty good job at implementing the look and feel of NS/OS.

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace (https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace)

Nextspace is just a meta-package for GNUstep, it's just been renamed. :(

QuoteDebian packages were reused as much as possible: gnustep-{make,base,gui,back}, but renamed to nextspace-* so they can be installed side-by-side.
Title: Re: Reverse engineering the OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP systems
Post by: igor_av on September 07, 2021, 09:16:06 PM
Quote from: itomato on September 07, 2021, 11:05:54 AMNextspace is just a meta-package for GNUstep, it's just been renamed. http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextcomputers.org%2Fforums%2FSmileys%2Ffugue%2Fsad.png

My bad. I misread the original post. Sorry.

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