We love macOS, but we’re not a fan of the ever-closing hardware and ecosystem. So we are creating ravynOS — an OS aimed to provide the finesse of macOS with the freedom of FreeBSD.

  • An illustration of a clean window design

    Clean Design

  • An illustration of a global menu

    Global Menus

  • An illustration of Shift and S keys

    Consistent Shortcuts

  • An illustration of an app ready to be dragged to Applications folder

    Simple Installs

  • Four familiar folders - Application, System, Library, and Users

    Familiar Folders

  • An illustration with some Cocoa Appkit code

    Cocoa APIs

  • An illustration of the macOS’ open command

    Nifty Commands

  • The FreeBSD devil from the bottom

    Superb Stability

  • ravynOS, Always

    We're building familiar apps native to ravynOS, packaged as portable .app bundles and built with our core technologies of Cocoa, Qt, and Mach. These are guaranteed to work and fit seamlessly into your desktop.

  • FreeBSD, Mostly

    FreeBSD ports that support Wayland continue to work on ravynOS right out of the box, or with minor changes.

  • Linux, Sometimes

    Many Linux applications that support Wayland are expected to work with FreeBSD’s Linux emulation layer.

  • macOS, Maybe

    Trivial macOS and Darwin applications may run directly on ravynOS. This is an active area of work and research. AppKit-based source code may build and run natively.