--- title: Darwin family description: published: true date: 2021-11-13T16:48:09.330Z tags: editor: markdown dateCreated: 2021-11-13T16:29:34.112Z --- # Darwin-based operating systems > Phyllome OS **strongly** discourage users from virtualizing proprietary, darwin-based operating systems on non-Apple hardware. The Phyllome OS Project will take any possible measures to shutdown threads that mention such setup on platforms it has control over. {.is-danger} > That being said, it is perfectly legal to virtualize open-source, darwin-based operating systems surch as [PureDarwin](https://www.puredarwin.org/), even on non-Apple hardware. As a result, Phyllome OS **strongly** encourage users to do so. {.is-info} ## Introduction `to be done`