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No, Darwin is like Linux, the kernel. You cannot say a kernel is an operating system. In android, the operating system itself (AOSP) is FOSS, and the equivalent in iOS is not FOSS.
Darwin isn't the kernel though. It's the XNU kernel plus some cribbed BSD code, a network stack, an Apple's API I/O drivers. It's more of a software distribution. and you *can* say the kernel is the OS because they're both generally defined the exact same way.
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again, there's this misconception that an operating system and kernel are somehow separate things because what people consider an OS is actually a software distribution that packages the OS with the applications needed to make it useful.
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if we're going by the nomenclature for a program that manages memory, schedules tasks, and runs other programs, the "operating system" and the "kernel" both fit this.
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