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Porting Darwin to Intel Platforms?

Posted by Cliff on from the darwinism-to-go-cross-platform? dept.

The Liquid Plumber asks: "I was wondering if anyone had any luck porting (or any information on porting) Apple's open source "Darwin OS" to Intel platforms? I have glanced at the code, and there is a little architecture-specific code that I'm really not familiar with. If anyone has any information on this, I'd love to have it. Thanks. "

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  1. Re:I can see this may be somewhat useful by Dandy · · Score: 2

    Who cares if there are better x86 Unixes out there? Porting Darwin would be worth it just for the hack value.

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    ----Daniel Pearson of the UMBC LUG
  2. Re:I can see this may be somewhat useful by poink · · Score: 2

    Waste time? What if Linus hadn't "wasted his time", and instead worked on Minix or 386BSD, where would you be now?

    People do this as a hobby, because they find it fun. It may not benefit anyone else but them, but who cares?