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  1. Don't fret. by gklinger · · Score: 5, Informative · on OpenDarwin Project Shutting Down

    I started out using Fink but it never felt quite right. Then I tried DarwinPorts and I've been happy ever since. As a result, when I saw this story my first thought was, "What will happen to DarinPorts?" I checked the Darwinports Mailing List Archive and found this comforting post. To summarize, DarwinPorts is alive and well and will continue. Time to start using www.darwinports.org rather than www.opendarwin.org.

  2. Re:right... by jours · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Virtualization Goes Mainstream
    Mac is too proprietary to do ANYTHING for free. ... most wouldn't know what to do with virtualization software
    In the time it took you to post this absurd message you could've swung over to Google and found...

    http://darwinports.org/
    http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html

    http://www.kberg.ch/q/
    http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/m ac/

    My advice is
    1. Think first
    2. Post to Slashdot

    Wishful thinking, I know.
  3. Re:that would be a self-destruct by jbolden · · Score: 1 · on Will MacIntel Kill Apple Open Source Efforts?

    he one thing Apple could and should do is become a little more open to open source technologies. In particular, Apple should make X11 and Gnome a GUI environment on equal footing with Carbon and Cocoa. Right now, Gnome is a cumbersome third party install, and their X11 integration sucks.

    Ahh I'm not even sure what to say on this.

    1) X11 integration is great. Apple wrote a custom X11 which can share a clipboard, is Aqua aware, integrates with the Dock, has a Mac like Window manager.... That better than almost any OS I can think of has ever done for their secondary windowing system. For example: Windows under OS/2, dos under windows, Windows under Desqview, classic under OSX.

    2) Apple has paid FTE's working on the DarwinPorts project. Their gnome support seems pretty good.

    3) I assume you mean GTK on an equal footing since Gnome::GTK, OSX::Cocoa/Carbon see diagram. But in that case it isn't the Gnome GUI so I don't know what you mean.

  4. Re:Product Inflation by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 1 · on PC World's 100 Best Products of 2005

    My biggest problem with Mac OS X is its complete lack of respect for standard *nix apps. In my experience, they usually don't com pile without a lot of work.

    DarwinPorts

  5. Re:No darwin ports is hostile by javax · · Score: 5, Informative · on DarwinPorts Now Available as a .dmg


    Seems like you totally confused GNU-Darwin (which hosed your system) with OpenDarwin and it's DarwinPorts project.

  6. Re:Four letters by cremes · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Is Apple The New Microsoft?

    Crippled? Care to explain how? You can run http://opendarwin.org/ on more models of Macintosh than you can run OSX out of the box (utilizing XPostFacto). Plus, you can run it on several different x86 motherboards. It has a fully functional X system too for all the GUI goodness you could want. It has a rich and growing ports http://darwinports.org/ collection.

    If OpenDarwin is crippled, then so is every *Linux and *BSD distribution out there.

    Yeah, you definitely put your foot in your mouth.

    cr

  7. Re:Can we run C++ on a Mac by fpillet · · Score: 1 · on Accessories for Mac mini

    Mac OS X is a BSD system, so you have access to the wide variety of Unix-ish open source software. Whatever your favorite language is, if there's a BSD interpreter/compiler/whatever, it probably also runs on OS X.

    Apple gives away free development tools. GCC is the base compiler on Mac OS X. XCode is a development environment that can do pretty much everything. I also highly recommend Shark from the free CHUD package (check out the Celestia optimization tutorial). It makes wonders when it comes to analyzing your app's performance problems.

    Oracle 10g was recently released for Mac OS X Server (download here).

    There are also zillions of OSS packages that work on OS X (check out DarwinPorts and Fink for example).

  8. Yes, it is! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Next G5 Multitasks Operating Systems

    I run the Mac OS X panther...I used to have Debian running on it, but OS X makes it unnecessary (also see the FINK project http://fink.sf.net/ and DarwinPorts http://www.darwinports.org/

    I run Fluxbox in my apple X11. It's very handy..