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FIG 14.0 · Mac edition · v0.1.10

The same core.Hosted by macOS.

We compiled the MeghaOS desktop environment straight from its Rust core into a native Mac application. There is no virtual machine and no emulation: the code that runs the Linux desktop is the code running on your Mac.

macOS 11+ · 931 MB (Apple Silicon) · 957 MB (Intel) · Apple notarised

FIG 14.2 · Compiled, not wrapped

What “native” buys you.

A virtual machine means running a second operating system inside your first one: two schedulers, two memory managers, and a fan that never stops. We do not do that. The Rust core is compiled to arm64 and x86-64 machine code and linked against macOS’s own frameworks.

  • Starts in the time a Mac app starts, not the time a VM boots.
  • Uses one machine’s worth of memory, because there is one machine.
  • Sleeps and wakes with the lid, and shows up in Activity Monitor as one process tree.
  • Native clipboard, native windowing, native trackpad gestures.
  • Kind to the battery, because there is no idle guest OS underneath it.
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FIG 14.3 · The trade

What macOS provides instead of our layers.

The agent layer is identical. The operating system underneath it is Apple’s, so the guarantees underneath it are Apple’s too. Here is that mapping, including the one place it simply does not hold.

On MeghaOS

Our system image

On your Mac

macOS itself, updated by Apple

On Linux the whole system is ours and versioned as one thing. Here you are running our app on their operating system, on their update schedule.

On MeghaOS

Our session and compositor

On your Mac

The macOS windowing system

The Linux editions own the session end to end: compositor, greeter, lock screen. On a Mac the workspace is a window like any other.

On MeghaOS

System-level protections

On your Mac

Secure Boot, SIP, the app sandbox and TCC

Apple’s, and they are good. The point worth being clear about is that they protect macOS, not our runtime specifically, so we inherit them rather than provide them.

On MeghaOS

Everything above the system

On your Mac

Identical

The agent, the model, the memory store and all six surfaces are the same code as on Linux. This is the part that genuinely does carry over.

If those guarantees are the reason you are here, the full operating system is the edition that actually delivers them.

FIG 14.4 · Install

Three steps, no risk to your Mac.

Nothing is partitioned, nothing is replaced, and uninstalling is dragging it to the Trash.

1

Download

Pick the build for your chip. Both are notarised by Apple, so Gatekeeper opens them without a warning.

2

Drag & drop

Into Applications, like anything else. No partitioning, no bootloader, no terminal.

3

Launch

First run provisions the workspace locally. The model ships inside the app, so nothing downloads.

Apple Silicon

MeghaOS_0.1.10_aarch64.dmg · 931 MB

Download

Intel

MeghaOS_0.1.10_x64.dmg · 957 MB

Download

Most Macs from 2020 onward are Apple Silicon; check under › About This Mac. Checksums for every build are on the download page.

Requirements

  • macOS 11 or later
  • Apple notarised
  • Apple Silicon or Intel

No dual boot.No virtual machine.

Drag it into Applications and it is running. Delete it and nothing remains.