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iPhones
If you mean interoperability there is https://libimobiledevice.org/ but honestly compared to what KDE Connect can offer with Android phones it's just ... lame.
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Apple_iPhone_X_(Global)_(apple-d22)
"Working" is not what I would call that. The "Features" list is full of broken stuff and only 1 works and 1 partial.
Booting, yes. Working, not really.
I stand corrected.
doesn't it have a unix like core like os x?
Unlike Linux.
no, linux is a unix-like. macos is an actual unix.
Not quite. FreeBSD, where much of macOS originates after the merge from NeXTSTEP, is merely “UNIX-like” as well.
macos is a certified unix.
So is Inspur K/UX, which is a Linux distribution. There is a difference between Unix (the software) and UNIX (the certification).
oh?
That's bsd based.